Motor imagery beyond the joint limits: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study

Biological Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 283-290

  Bufalari, I ^a,b   Sforza, A ^a,b   Cesari, P ^c   Aglioti, S M ^a,b   Fourkas, A D ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Impossible movements; Metacarpo phalangeal joint; Motor excitability; Motor imagery; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR IMAGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77956722114     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.07.015     Document Type: Article

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