Corticospinal facilitation during first and third person imagery

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 143-151

  Fourkas, Alissa D ^a   Avenanti, Alessio ^a,b   Urgesi, Cosimo ^a,c   Aglioti, Salvatore M ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Motor evoked potentials; Motor imagery; Perspective taking; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RETINA IMAGE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 28644447931     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0076-0     Document Type: Article

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