Preferred chewing side-dependent two-point discrimination and cortical activation pattern of tactile tongue sensation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 118-126

  Minato, Akiko ^a   Ono, Takashi ^a   Miyamoto, Jun J ^a,b   Honda, Ei ichi ^a,c   Kurabayashi, Tohru ^a   Moriyama, Keiji ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical activation; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Preferred chewing side; Tongue sensation; Two point discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAW; MALE; MANDIBLE; MASTICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TONGUE;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MASTICATION; TONGUE; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349104186     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.04.028     Document Type: Article

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