Cutaneomotor integration in humans is somatotopically organized at various levels of the nervous system and is task dependent

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 48-59

  Classen, Joseph ^a   Steinfelder, Beate ^a   Liepert, Joachim ^b   Stefan, Katja ^a   Celnik, Pablo ^c   Cohen, Leonardo G ^c   Hess, Alexander ^a   Kunesch, Erwin ^a   Chen, Robert ^c   Benecke, Reiner ^a   Hallett, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitation; Inhibition; Input output; Somatotopy; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SKIN ELECTRODE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0033979653     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050005     Document Type: Article

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