Motor facilitation while observing hand actions: Specificity of the effect and role of observer's orientation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1329-1335

  Maeda, Fumiko ^a   Kleiner Fisman, Galit ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THUMB; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0036098044     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00773.2000     Document Type: Article

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