Disrupting the ventral premotor cortex interferes with the contribution of action observation to use-dependent plasticity

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3757-3766

  Cantarero, Gabriela ^a,b   Galea, Joseph M ^a   Ajagbe, Loni ^a   Salas, Rachel ^a   Willis, Jeff ^a   Celnik, Pablo ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION OBSERVATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; USE DEPENDENT PLASTICITY; VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055105668     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00051     Document Type: Article

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