Functional somatotopy of finger representations in human primary motor cortex

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 272-283

  Dechent, Peter ^a   Frahm, Jens ^a  

^a Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finger somatotopy; Functional MRI; Human; Primary motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOMATOTOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 0037384797     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.10084     Document Type: Article

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