Shall i move my right or my left hand? An EEG study in frequency and time domains

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 69-86

  Babiloni, Claudio ^a   Babiloni, Fabio ^a   Carducci, Filippo ^a,b   Cincotti, Febo ^a   Del Percio, Claudio ^a   Hallett, Mark ^c   Kelso, A J Scott ^d   Moretti, Davide Vito ^a   Liepert, Joachim ^e   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b,f,g  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^d FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^g Fatebenefratelli Isola Tiberina Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Event related desynchronization synchronization (ERD ERS); Human cortex; Mirror movements; Motor control; Movement related potentials (MRPs)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; REVIEW; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0242552452     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027//0269-8803.17.2.69     Document Type: Review

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