The human hand motor area is transiently suppressed by an unexpected auditory stimulus

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 178-183

  Furubayashi, Toshiaki ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^a   Terao, Yasuo ^a   Hanajima, Ritsuko ^a   Sakai, Katsuyuki ^a   MacHii, Katsuyuki ^a   Mochizuki, Hitoshi ^a   Shiio, Yasushi ^a   Uesugi, Haruo ^a   Enomoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Kanazawa, Ichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory stimulation; Electrical stimulation; Magnetic stimulation; Motor cortex; Startle response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STARTLE REFLEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033990949     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00200-X     Document Type: Article

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