Asymmetry of interhemispheric interaction in left-handed subjects

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 268-275

  Pollok, Bettina ^a   Gross, Joachim ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherence; Handedness; Humans; Lateralization; MEG; Synchronization; Timing; Transcallosal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33750287653     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0545-0     Document Type: Article

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