Magnetoencephalography in the study of human somatosensory cortical processing

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1387, 1999, Pages 1145-1154

  Hari, R ^a,b   Forss, N ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Human; Magnetoencephalography; SI; SII; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033615045     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0470     Document Type: Article

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