Evaluation of effective connectivity of motor areas during motor imagery and execution using conditional Granger causality

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1280-1288

  Gao, Qing ^a   Duan, Xujun ^a   Chen, Huafu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Conditional Granger causality; Effective connectivity; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Motor execution; Motor imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649663177     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.08.071     Document Type: Article

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