Involvement of visual cortex in tactile discrimination orientation

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6753, 1999, Pages 587-590

  Zangaladze, Andro ^a,b   Epstein, Charles M ^a   Grafton, Scott T ^a   Sathian, K ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033533850     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44139     Document Type: Article

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