Cortical asymmetries of the human somatosensory hand representation in right- and left-handers

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-92

  Sörös, Peter ^a   Knecht, Stefan ^a   Imai, Tanya ^a   Gürtler, Sebastian ^a   Lütkenhöner, Bernd ^a   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^a   Henningsen, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain asymmetry; Evoked potentials; Left handed; Magnetic source imaging; Magnetoencephalography; Right handed; Somatosensory system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0344131391     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00528-5     Document Type: Article

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