Mentally represented motor actions in normal aging: III. Electromyographic features of imagined arm movements

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 184-191

  Personnier, Pascaline ^a,b   Ballay, Yves ^a,b   Papaxanthis, Charalambos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Arm movement; Electromyography; Motor imagery; Motor prediction; Movement timing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; AGING; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350532230     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.09.011     Document Type: Article

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