Steady-state vibration somatosensory evoked potentials: Physiological characteristics and tuning function

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1953-1958

  Tobimatsu, Shozo ^a   Zhang, You Min ^a   Kato, Motohiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Somatosensory evoked potential, steady state, vibration, mechanoreceptive afferent, tuning function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; VIBRATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 0032848290     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00146-7     Document Type: Article

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