Assessment of sensorimotor cortical representation asymmetries and motor skills in violin players

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3291-3302

  Schwenkreis, Peter ^a   El Tom, Susan ^b   Ragert, Patrick ^b   Pleger, Burkhard ^a   Tegenthoff, Martin ^a   Dinse, Hubert R ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Dipole source localization; Motor performance; SEP; TMS mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSIC; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 36249025217     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05894.x     Document Type: Article

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