Evaluation of the effective connectivity of the dominant primary motor cortex during bimanual movement using Granger causality

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 443, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-6

  Gao, Qing ^a   Chen, Huafu ^a   Gong, Qiyong ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC)   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bimanual movement; Granger causality; Primary motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRANGER CAUSALITY; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 49349088149     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.036     Document Type: Article

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