Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the human motor cortex

Motor Cortex in Voluntary Movements: A Distributed System for Distributed Functions

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 49-56

  Kleinschmidt, Andreas ^a   Toni, Ivan ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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