Characteristics of the human contra- versus ipsilateral SII cortex

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 894-900

  Wegner, Katharina ^a,b   Forss, Nina ^a   Salenius, Stephan ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional organization; Human; Median nerve SEFs; SII responses; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SCALP; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0034194401     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00319-3     Document Type: Article

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