Observing how others lift light or heavy objects: Which visual cues mediate the encoding of muscular force in the primary motor cortex?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2082-2090

  Alaerts, Kaat ^a   Swinnen, Stephan P ^a   Wenderoth, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Action observation; Intrinsic object properties; Kinematics; Mirror system; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CUES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBSERVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953558769     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.03.029     Document Type: Article

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