The suppression of the μ rhythm during the creation of imagery representation of movement

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 495, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-43

  Francuz, Piotr ^a   Zapała, Dariusz ^a  

^a JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Rhythms; Biological motion; EEG; Mirror neurons; Motor imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIRROR NEURONS SYSTEM; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MU RHYTHM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955018509     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.03.031     Document Type: Article

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