How Similar Are Motor Imagery and Movement?

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 910-916

  Rodriguez, Manuel ^a,b   Llanos, Catalina ^a,c   Gonzalez, Sergio ^a   Sabate, Magdalena ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

^c Department of Physical Medicine and Pharmacology ^*

Author keywords

motion; motor imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; INDEX FINGER; KINESTHESIA; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR IMAGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 50849128512     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.4.910     Document Type: Article

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