Excitability of the motor cortex ipsilateral to the moving body side depends on spatio-temporal task complexity and hemispheric specialization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  van den Berg, Femke E ^a   Swinnen, Stephan P ^a   Wenderoth, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SHORT INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; WRIST;

DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952436070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017742     Document Type: Article

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