Spatiotemporal integration of tactile information in human somatosensory cortex

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zhu, Zhao ^a,b   Disbrow, Elizabeth A ^a,b,c   Zumer, Johanna M ^a   McGonigle, David J ^a,d   Nagarajan, Srikantan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FINGER; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 33947720960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-21     Document Type: Article

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