Challenging the brain: Exploring the link between effort and cortical activation

Brain Research

Volumn 1301, Issue , 2009, Pages 9-19

  Mochizuki, G ^a   Hoque, T ^a   Mraz, R ^a   MacIntosh, B J ^a,b   Graham, S J ^a,b,c,d   Black, S E ^a,d   Staines, W R ^a,e   McIlroy, W E ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effort; Electrodermal Response; fMRI; Human; Motor control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 71849118286     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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