Second somatosensory area (SII) plays a significant role in selective somatosensory attention

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 389-397

  Fujiwara, Naohito ^a,b   Imai, Makoto ^a,c   Nagamine, Takashi ^a   Mima, Tatsuya ^a   Oga, Tatsuhide ^a   Takeshita, Kazuhide ^a   Toma, Keiichiro ^a   Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Second somatosensory area; Selective attention; Somatosensory evoked neuromagnetic field; Whole head magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRIST;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEDIAN NERVE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0036841775     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00141-6     Document Type: Article

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