Testing the potential of a virtual reality neurorehabilitation system during performance of observation, imagery and imitation of motor actions recorded by wireless functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Holper, Lisa ^a,b   Muehlemann, Thomas ^a,c   Scholkmann, Felix ^a   Eng, Kynan ^b   Kiper, Daniel ^b   Wolf, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649531324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17430003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-0003-7-57     Document Type: Article

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