Abnormal response recovery in the right somatosensory cortex of dyslexic adults

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 507-513

  Renvall, Hanna ^a   Lehtonen, Reetta ^a   Hari, Riitta ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Magnetoencephalography; MEG; Somatosensory; Tactile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THUMB;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DYSLEXIA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 17744393265     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh150     Document Type: Article

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