Intercerebellar coupling contributes to bimanual coordination

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 704-719

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

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33947643716     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.4.704     Document Type: Article

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