Covert muscle excitation is outflow from the central generation of motor imagery

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 149-163

  Lutz, Rafer S ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EMG; Functional equivalence; Inflow processing; Motor imagery; Outflow processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLES; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELAXATION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0037452858     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00313-3     Document Type: Article

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