Motor imagery and its implications for understanding the motor system

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 174, Issue , 2009, Pages 219-229

  Munzert, Jörn ^a   Zentgraf, Karen ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

mental simulation theory; motor imagery; motor representation; primary motor cortex; verbal instruction

Indexed keywords

APPLIED RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER MODEL; IMAGERY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); IMAGINATION; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT;

EID: 65649131513     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)01318-1     Document Type: Review

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