Hemispheric asymmetry of hand representation in human primary somatosensory cortex and handedness

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2579-2586

  Jung, Patrick ^a   Baumgärtner, Ulf ^b   Magerl, Walter ^b   Treede, Rolf Detlef ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipole source analysis; Handedness; Hemispheric asymmetry; Median nerve; SEP generators

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; DIPOLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54149083371     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.04.300     Document Type: Article

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