Symmetric sensorimotor somatotopy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Overduin, Simon A ^a   Servos, Philip ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; MALE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SUBICULUM; THUMB; ANIMAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 45149096870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001505     Document Type: Article

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