PET studies of somatosensory processing of light touch

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 135, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 133-140

  Hagen, Matthew C ^a,b   Pardo, José V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Light touch; Positron emission tomography (PET); SI; SII; SIII; Somatosensation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOUCH;

EID: 0037145090     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00142-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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