Differential effects of galvanic vestibular stimulation on arm position sense in right- vs. left-handers

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 893-899

  Schmidt, Lena ^a,b   Artinger, Frank ^c   Stumpf, Oliver ^c   Kerkhoff, Georg ^a,b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b International Research Training Group   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Handedness; Lateralization; Position sense; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

AGED; ARM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 84875281335     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.02.013     Document Type: Article

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