A mental route to motor learning: Improving trajectorial kinematics through imagery training

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 95-106

  Yaguez L ^a   Nagel, D ^a   Hoffman, H ^a   Canavan, A G M ^a,b   Wist, E ^c   Homberg V ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Imagery; Motor Learning; Movement kinematics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; LOGIC; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0345019846     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00087-9     Document Type: Article

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