No evidence for a substantial involvement of primary motor hand area in handedness judgements: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2215-2224

  Sauner, Dieter ^a   Bestmann, Sven ^a   Siebner, Hartwig R ^b,c   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c NeuroImage Nord   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human; Mental rotation; Motor imagery; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33645990296     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04731.x     Document Type: Article

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