Observational learning of new movement sequences is reflected in fronto-parietal coherence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  van der Helden, Jurjen ^a   van Schie, Hein T ^c   Rombouts, Christiaan ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL SULCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTO PARIETAL COHERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MU RHYTHM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PREDICTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); OBSERVATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; OBSERVATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79251511874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014482     Document Type: Article

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