Self-touch affects motor imagery: A study on posture interference effect

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-122

  Conson, Massimiliano ^a   Mazzarella, Elisabetta ^a   Trojano, Luigi ^a,b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body schema; Motor imagery; Posture manipulation; Proprioception; Self touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW FLEXION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR IMAGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SELF TOUCH; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; THORAX; TOUCH; WOOD;

ADULT; ARM; BODY IMAGE; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82655162067     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2877-7     Document Type: Article

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