Handedness effects on interhemispheric transfer time: A TMS study

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 228-232

  Basso, Demis ^a,b   Vecchi, Tomaso ^b   Kabiri, Lilach Akiva ^b   Baschenis, Ilaria ^b   Boggiani, Elisa ^b   Bisiacchi, Patrizia S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crossed uncrossed difference; Interhemispheric transfer time; Motor cortex; Reaction times; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STAGING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33746017424     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2006.05.009     Document Type: Article

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