Gender difference in premotor activity during active tactile discrimination

NeuroImage

Volumn 11, Issue 5 I, 2000, Pages 532-540

  Sadato, Norihiro ^b,c   Ibañez, Vicente ^d   Deiber, Marie Pierre ^e   Hallett, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d University Hospital of Bel Air   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0343566427     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2000.0566     Document Type: Article

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