Visual and tactile interhemispheric transfer compared with the method of Poffenberger

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-74

  Fendrich, Robert ^a   Hutsler, Jeffrey J ^b   Gazzaniga, Michael S ^c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Handedness; Lateralized; Poffenberger; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT HANDEDNESS; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4444249539     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-1873-6     Document Type: Article

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