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Pekka Hautasaari1, Urho M Kujala2, Ina M Tarkka1

  • 1Health Sciences, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland; Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.

Journal of Neuroscience Methods
|September 16, 2018
PubMed
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Keywords:
Cutaneous nerve stimulationFunctional brain imagingHuman sensory cortexMismatch responseTactile stimulation

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