Studying the human somatosensory hand area: A new way to compare fMRI and MEG

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 280-291

  Stoeckel, Maria Cornelia ^a,b   Pollok, Bettina ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a,c,d   Seitz, Ruediger J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Plasticity; Somatosensory cortex; Somatotopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN MAPPING; DIPOLE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THUMB;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OXYGEN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 34347364552     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.05.016     Document Type: Article

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