Task-specific increase in corticomotor excitability during tactile discrimination

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 163-172

  Master, Sabah ^a,b   Tremblay, François ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b BRUYÈRE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Motor behavior; Tactile discrimination; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR DIGITI MINIMI; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOMOTOR EXCITABILITY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FINGER; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TOUCH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOUCH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249109777     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1679-z     Document Type: Article

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