Bilateral slowing of mentally simulated actions after stroke

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1349-1353

  Malouin, Francine ^a   Richards, Carol L ^a   Desrosiers, Johanne ^b   Doyon, Julien ^c  

^a CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN REHABILITATION AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Mental chronometry; Mental representation of actions; Motor imagery; Stroke; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 2942586987     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000127465.94899.72     Document Type: Article

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