Effects of co-activation on cortical organization and discrimination performance

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 2669-2672

  Pilz, Karin ^a   Veit, Ralf ^a   Braun, Christoph ^a,b   Godde, Ben ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical organization; fMRI; Psychophysics; Somatosensory cortex; Synchronous and asynchronous co activation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 11144219736     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200412030-00023     Document Type: Article

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