Attention modulates motor system activation during action observation: Evidence for inhibitory rebound

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-249

  Schuch, Stefanie ^a,b   Bayliss, Andrew P ^a,c   Klein, Christoph ^a,d   Tipper, Steven P ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action perception; EEG; Inhibition; Mirror system; Mu rhythm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REBOUND; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ARTIFACTS; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956184730     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2358-4     Document Type: Article

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