Asymmetry of motor cortex excitability during a simple motor task: Relationships with handedness and manual performance

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 467-476

  Brouwer, Brenda ^a   Sale, Martin V ^b   Nordstrom, Michael A ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corticospinal; Dexterity; Lateralisation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0035000310     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210100730     Document Type: Article

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