Somatotopic mapping of the human primary sensorimotor cortex during motor imagery and motor execution by functional magnetic resonance imaging

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 331, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 50-54

  Stippich, Christoph ^a   Ochmann, Henrik ^a   Sartor, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Motor imagery; Somatotopy

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOE; TONGUE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOES; TONGUE;

EID: 0037020514     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00826-1     Document Type: Article

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