Differential effect of linguistic and non-linguistic pen-holding tasks on motor cortex excitability

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-246

  Filipović, Saša R ^a,c   Papathanasiou, Ilias ^a,b   Whurr, Renate ^a,b   Rothwell, John C ^a   Jahanshahi, Marjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical inhibition; Drawing; Silent period; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Writing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DRAWING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRITING;

ADULT; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54849415658     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1517-3     Document Type: Article

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