Number of trials selecting each hand movement
| TMS | Number of trials | Number of trials with short RT* | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experiment | Intensity | Site | Total No of trials | Contra | Ipsi | Contra | Ipsi | RT (ms)† | |
| Contra, contralateral hand selection; ipsi, ipsilateral hand selection; M1, the motor cortex; RMT, resting motor threshold; RT, reaction time; TMS, transcranial magnetic stimulation. | |||||||||
| *≤ 200 ms in experiment 1 and 2, and ≤ 300 ms in experiment 3. | |||||||||
| †Mean (SD). | |||||||||
| Experiment 1 | 5% below RMT | M1 | 470 | 210 (45%) | 260 (55%) | 53 (45%) | 66 (55%) | 323 (151) | |
| Air | 464 | 217 (47%) | 247 (53%) | 62 (49%) | 75 (51%) | 305 (154) | |||
| Experiment 2 | Near RMT | Right | 581 | 250 (43%) | 331 (57%) | 102 (53%) | 89 (47%) | 317 (184) | |
| Left | 575 | 302 (53%) | 273 (47%) | 126 (51%) | 120 (49%) | ||||
| Experiment 3 | 5% above RMT | M1 | 508 | 244 (48%) | 264 (52%) | 16 (38%) | 26 (62%) | 442 (180) | |
| F3/4 | 510 | 234 (46%) | 276 (54%) | 23 (45%) | 28 (55%) | 398 (151) | |||
| Air | 517 | 247 (48%) | 273 (52%) | 32 (42%) | 44 (58%) | 385 (170) | |||