Differential activation in somatosensory cortex for different discrimination tasks

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 446-450

  Braun, Christoph ^a,e   Schweizer, Renate ^a   Elbert, Thomas ^b   Birbaumer, Niels ^a   Taub, Edward ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MEG Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical reorganization; Dipole source analysis; Evoked potentials; Human; Learning; Plasticity; Somatosensory; Tactile sensation threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0033993936     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-01-00446.2000     Document Type: Article

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