Anticipation and execution of a simple reading task enhance corticospinal excitability

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 424-429

  Seyal, M ^a   Mull, B ^a   Bhullar, N ^a   Ahmad, T ^a   Gage, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticospinal excitability; Electromyographic responses; Reading; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLES; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032892596     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(98)00019-4     Document Type: Article

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