Imagery of Voluntary Movement of Fingers, Toes, and Tongue Activates Corresponding Body-Part-Specific Motor Representations

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 3304-3316

  Ehrsson, H Henrik ^a,c   Geyer, Stefan ^b   Naito, Eiichi ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOE; TONGUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; TOES; TONGUE;

EID: 0242508627     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01113.2002     Document Type: Article

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