fNIRS Exhibits Weak Tuning to Hand Movement Direction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Waldert, Stephan ^a,b   Tüshaus, Laura ^a   Kaller, Christoph P ^c   Aertsen, Ad ^a   Mehring, Carsten ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PILOT STUDY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; FEMALE; HAND; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 84869001438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049266     Document Type: Article

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