Motor imagery of gait: A quantitative approach

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 497-504

  Bakker, M ^a,b   De Lange, F P ^a   Stevens, J A ^c   Toni, I ^a,d   Bloem, B R ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fitts' law; Gait; Motor imagery; Neuroimaging; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHAIR; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SITTING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEG; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOLITION; WALKING;

EID: 34248165413     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0807-x     Document Type: Article

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