Visually guided motor imagery activates sensorimotor areas in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 153-156

  Pfurtscheller, Gert ^a   Neuper, Christa ^a   Ramoser, Herbert ^a   Müller Gerking, Johannes ^b  

^a Institute of Biomedical Engineering   (Austria)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Common spatial filters; Event related desynchronization; Imagination of movement; Sensorimotor rhythms; Single trial electroencephalography; Visual stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0033575475     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00452-8     Document Type: Article

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