On how the motor cortices resolve an inter-hemispheric response conflict: An event-related EEG potential-guided TMS study of the flankers task

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 318-326

  Verleger, Rolf ^a   Kuniecki, Michał ^a,b   Möller, Friderike ^a   Fritzmannova, Michaela ^a   Siebner, Hartwig R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Flankers; Lateralized readiness potential; Motor control; Motor evoked potential; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS MUSCLE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651165480     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06817.x     Document Type: Article

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