Early neural correlates of conscious somatosensory perception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 5248-5258

  Palva, Satu ^a,b   Linkenkaer Hansen, Klaus ^c   Näätänen, Risto ^a,b   Palva, J Matias ^d  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

oscillations; Consciousness; Evoked; Network; Phase locking; Sensorimotor; Somatosensory; Synchrony; Temporal; Topography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19444386379     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0141-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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