Posteromedial parietal cortical activity and inputs predict tactile spatial acuity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 41, 2007, Pages 11091-11102

  Stilla, Randall ^a   Deshpande, Gopikrishna ^c   LaConte, Stephen ^c   Hu, Xiaoping ^c   Sathian, K ^a,b,d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Emory University   (United States)

^d ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Finger; fMRI; Granger causality; Somatosensory; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH;

EID: 35348826186     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1808-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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