Functional coupling of human right and left cortical motor areas demonstrated with partial coherence analysis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 93-96

  Mima, Tatsuya ^a   Matsuoka, Takahiro ^a   Hallett, Mark ^a  

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

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Interhemispheric coherence; Mu rhythm; Partial coherence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT;

EID: 0034705652     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01165-4     Document Type: Article

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