Dorsal premotor cortex exerts state-dependent causal influences on activity in contralateral primary motor and dorsal premotor cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1281-1291

  Bestmann, Sven ^a,b   Swayne, Orlando ^a   Blankenburg, Felix ^a   Ruff, Christian C ^a,b   Haggard, Patrick ^b   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^a   Josephs, Oliver ^a   Driver, Jon ^a,b   Rothwell, John C ^a   Ward, Nick S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concurrent TMS fMRI; Effective connectivity; Grip force; Motor preparation; Transcallosal inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 44449122731     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm159     Document Type: Article

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