Cortical processing of lateral skin stretch stimulation in humans.
Direction discrimination of a moving tactile stimulus requires intact dorsal columns and provides a sensitive clinical test of somatosensory dysfunction. Cortical mechanisms are poorly understood. We have applied tangential skin pulls to the right lower leg during functional magnetic resonance imagi...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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