Sex differences in sensorimotor mu rhythms during selective attentional processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4102-4110

  Popovich, C ^a,b   Dockstader, C ^a   Cheyne, D ^a,b   Tannock, R ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Magnetoencephalography; Mu rhythm; Sensorimotor; Sex differences; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MU RHYTHM; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; REACTION TIME; SELF REPORT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649451274     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.10.016     Document Type: Article

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