Evidence for interhemispheric motor-level transfer in a simple reaction time task: An EEG study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 256-261

  Thut, Gregor ^a,b   Hauert, Claude Alain ^a   Morand, Stéphanie ^b   Seeck, Margitta ^b   Landis, Theodor ^b   Michel, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Interhemispheric transfer; Simple reaction time task; Source localization; Temporal segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0032836057     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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