Asymmetry in the human primary somatosensory cortex and handedness

NeuroImage

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 913-923

  Jung, Patrick ^a   Baumgärtner, Ulf ^a   Bauermann, Thomas ^a   Magerl, Walter ^a   Gawehn, Jochen ^a   Stoeter, Peter ^a   Treede, Rolf Detlef ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Handedness; Hemispheric asymmetry; Morphometry; SEP; Somatosensory cortex; Source analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CEPHALOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0042671210     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00164-2     Document Type: Article

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