An increase in cortical excitability with no change in spinal excitability during motor imagery

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 288-290

  Yahagi, Susumu ^a   Shimura, Kuniyoshi ^b   Kasai, Tatsuya ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA SHUDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INNERVATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030202846     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.83.1.288     Document Type: Article

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