Neural interactions between motor cortical hemispheres during bimanual and unimanual arm movements

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1881-1896

  Cardoso de Oliveira, Simone ^a,b   Gribova, A ^a   Donchin, O ^a,c   Bergman, H ^a   Vaadia, E ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^c Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Corpus callosum; Interhemispheric interactions; Local field potentials; Motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOGRAM; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ARM; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0035783678     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816X.2001.01801.x     Document Type: Article

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