The effect of motor imagery on gain modulation of the spinal reflex

Brain Research

Volumn 1372, Issue , 2011, Pages 41-48

  Aoyama, T ^a   Kaneko, F ^a,b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

H reflex; Motor imagery; Stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXCITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SPINAL REFLEX; STRETCH RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANKLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFLEX, STRETCH; SPINAL CORD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79151471274     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.11.023     Document Type: Article

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