Combining observation and imagery of an action enhances human corticospinal excitability

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-27

  Sakamoto, Masanori ^a   Muraoka, Tetsuro ^a   Mizuguchi, Nobuaki ^a   Kanosue, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticospinal excitability; Imagery; Motor evoked potentials; Observation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW FLEXION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 67650435784     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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