Motor imagery: A window into the mechanisms and alterations of the motor system

Cortex

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 494-506

  de Lange, Floris P ^a   Roelofs, Karin ^b   Toni, Ivan ^a,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conversion paralysis; Explicit motor imagery; fMRI; Implicit motor imagery; Mental rotation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSION DISORDER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARALYSIS; PARESIS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; REACTION TIME; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 44249120535     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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