Measuring motor imagery using psychometric, behavioral, and psychophysiological tools

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 85-92

  Collet, Christian ^a   Guillot, Aymeric ^a   Lebon, Florent ^b   MacIntyre, Tadhg ^c   Moran, Aidan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

autonomic nervous system; electrodermal and cardiac activities; mental chronometry; mental imagery; motor imagery; psychometric measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953247156     PISSN: 00916331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JES.0b013e31820ac5e0     Document Type: Review

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