Influence of imagined posture and imagery modality on corticospinal excitability

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 190-196

  Fourkas, Alissa D ^a   Ionta, Silvio ^a,c   Aglioti, Salvatore M ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

First person imagery; Kinesthetic imagery; Mental postural incongruency; Motor imagery; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 32044449418     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.10.015     Document Type: Article

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