Attention influences the excitability of cortical motor areas in healthy humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-117

  Conte, Antonella ^a,b   Gilio, Francesca ^a   Iezzi, Ennio ^a,b   Frasca, Vittorio ^a   Inghilleri, Maurizio ^a   Berardelli, Alfredo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Cortical plasticity; Healthy subjects; Magnetic stimulation; Motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 34548267135     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0975-3     Document Type: Article

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