Bilateral representation of sequential finger movements in human cortical areas

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-98

  Baraldi, Patrizia ^a   Porro, Carlo Adolfo ^b   Serafini, Marco ^c   Pagnoni, Giuseppe ^a   Murari, Cristina ^a   Corazza, Ruggero ^a   Nichelli, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bilateral motor representation; Brain mapping; Finger movement; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Human; Motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; FINGER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0033538534     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00433-4     Document Type: Article

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