Motor imagery and action observation: Modulation of sensorimotor brain rhythms during mental control of a brain-computer interface

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 239-247

  Neuper, Christa ^a,b   Scherer, Reinhold ^a,b   Wriessnegger, Selina ^a   Pfurtscheller, Gert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Action observation; Brain computer interface (BCI); Event related desynchronization; Motor imagery; Visual feedback

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MONITOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PERIODICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 59149100563     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.11.015     Document Type: Article

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