Differential temporal coding of the vibratory sense in the hand and foot in man

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 398-404

  Tobimatsu, Shozo ^a   Zhang, You Min ^a   Suga, Rie ^a   Kato, Motohiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mechanoreceptive afferents; Somatosensory steady state evoked potentials; Tuning function; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VIBRATION SENSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; VIBRATION;

EID: 0343066801     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00278-3     Document Type: Article

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