Cortical Motor Output of Braille Reading Hand

Abstract

Focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to map the motor cortical outputs to the right and left first dorsal interosseous (FDI) and right abductor digiti minimi (ADM) muscles of the reading hand in 6 blind proficient Braille readers studied at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD.

Keywords

• focal transcranial magnetic stimulation
• first dorsal interosseous
• braille reading