Variability in the effector-specific pattern of motor facilitation during the observation of everyday actions: Implications for the clinical use of action observation

Neuroscience

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 589-598

  Hetu S ^a,b   Gagne M ^a   Jackson, P L ^a,b   Mercier, C ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN REHABILITATION AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mirror box; Mirror neuron system; Motor facilitation; Rehabilitation; TMS; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITABILITY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77956188759     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.07.015     Document Type: Article

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