Evocaban somáticamente los campos magnéticos del cerebro humano.

D Brenner1, J Lipton, L Kaufman

  • 1Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 6, 1978
PubMed
Resumen

El cerebro humano genera un campo magnético detectable cerca del cuero cabelludo en respuesta a la estimulación de los dedos. Esta respuesta magnética, localizada en la corteza sensorial, muestra una latencia de unos 70 milisegundos.

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