Observing shadow motions: Resonant activity within the observer's motor system?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 461, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 240-244

  Alaerts, Kaat ^a   Van Aggelpoel, Tinne ^a   Swinnen, Stephan P ^a   Wenderoth, Nicole ^a  

^a Department of Biomedical Kinesiology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Action observation; Biological motion; Cortical excitability; Mirror system; Shadow animation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650144823     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.06.055     Document Type: Article

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