Effects of motor imagery are dependent on motor strategies

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1241-1245

  Liang, Nan ^a   Ni, Zhen ^a   Takahashi, Makoto ^a   Murakami, Tsuneji ^a   Yahagi, Susumu ^b   Funase, Kozo ^a   Kato, Takashi ^a   Kasai, Tatsuya ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA SHUDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agonist and synergist muscles; Motor imagery; Motor strategy; Motor evoked potential; Posture; Primary motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; FOREARM; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOREARM; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34447558095     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282202707     Document Type: Article

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