Interhemispheric visuo-motor integration in humans: The effect of redundant targets

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1981-1986

  Iacoboni, Marco ^a   Zaidel, Eran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; fMRI; Parallel processing; Premotor cortex; Redundancy gain; Sensorimotor integration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0038054207     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02602.x     Document Type: Article

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