Excitability of Motor Cortices as a Function of Emotional Sounds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Komeilipoor, Naeem ^a,b   Pizzolato, Fabio ^a   Daffertshofer, Andreas ^b   Cesari, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLES; SOUND;

EID: 84877138199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063060     Document Type: Article

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