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Characteristics of interhemispheric relationships in the absence or presence of a skill

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A comparative analysis of the time and amplitude characteristics of the negative N200 and positive P300 components of visual evoked potentials recorded at symmetric points of the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital areas of the right and left hemispheres of the cerebral cortex has been performed in subjects with or without the skill of operating a computer. Subjects inexperienced in an operator’s work exhibited an interhemispheric difference in the time and amplitude characteristics of the studied components. In subjects that had the skill of operating a computer, the interhemispheric difference was little, which suggests that the cortex plays only a small role in the cerebral control of this activity.

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    V. G. Grigoryan, A. R. Aghababyan, A. N. Arakelyan & A. Yu. Stepanyan

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Original Russian Text © V.G. Grigoryan, A.R. Aghababyan, A.N. Arakelyan, A.Yu. Stepanyan, 2006, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2006, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 134–137.

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Grigoryan, V.G., Aghababyan, A.R., Arakelyan, A.N. et al. Characteristics of interhemispheric relationships in the absence or presence of a skill. Hum Physiol 32, 489–491 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119706040189

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