Sustained attention modulates the immediate effect of de-afferentation on the cortical representation of the digits: Source localization of somatosensory evoked potentials in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-60

  Buchner, Helmut ^a   Reinartz, Ute ^a   Dino Waberski, Till ^a   Gobbelé, René ^a   Noppeney, Uta ^a   Scherg, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Cortical plasticity; Cortical reorganization; De afferentation; Somatosensory cortex; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Somatotopy; Source localization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DEAFFERENTATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0033593399     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00948-3     Document Type: Article

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