Effect of degree and direction of rotation in egocentric mental rotation of hand: An event-related potential study

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 180-185

  Tao, Weidong ^a,b   Liu, Qiang ^a,b   Huang, Xiting ^a,b   Tao, Xiaoli ^c   Yan, Jingjiang ^a,b   Teeter, Christopher J ^c   Li, Hong ^a,b   Sun, Hong Jin ^a,b,d  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHAOHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomechanical constrain; Egocentric reference frame; Mental rotation; Motor imagery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EVOKED RESPONSE; HAND; IMAGINATION; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; KINESIS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59149089936     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32831c510a     Document Type: Article

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