Spatial attention affects sensorimotor reorganisation in human motor cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-108

  Rosenkranz, Karin ^a   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Intracortical inhibition; Muscle vibration; Sensorimotor integration; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY SURFACE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VIBRATION;

EID: 33644843315     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0173-0     Document Type: Article

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