The role of the human ventral premotor cortex in counting successive stimuli

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 339-350

  Kansaku, Kenji ^a,b,c   Carver, Benjamin ^a   Johnson, Ari ^a   Matsuda, Keiji ^d   Sadato, Norihiro ^b   Hallett, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33947324029     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0736-8     Document Type: Article

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