Motor imagery: If you can't do it, you won't think it

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 711-715

  Olsson, C J ^a,b   Nyberg, L ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Functional equivalence; Mental training; Motor imagery; Motor representations

Indexed keywords

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REVIEW;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77956441326     PISSN: 09057188     EISSN: 16000838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2010.01101.x     Document Type: Review

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