Functional connectivity in tactile object discrimination: a principal component analysis of an event related fMRI-Study.

BACKGROUND: Tactile object discrimination is an essential human skill that relies on functional connectivity between the neural substrates of motor, somatosensory and supramodal areas. From a theoretical point of view, such distributed networks elude categorical analysis because subtraction methods...

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Main Authors: Susanne Hartmann, John H Missimer, Cornelia Stoeckel, Eugenio Abela, Jon Shah, Rüdiger J Seitz, Bruno J Weder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2585476?pdf=render