Trial-to-trial variability differentiates motor imagery during observation between low versus high responders: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-40

  Holper, Lisa ^a,b   Kobashi, Nagisa ^b,c   Kiper, Daniel ^b   Scholkmann, Felix ^a   Wolf, Martin ^a   Eng, Kynan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Motor execution; Motor imagery; Oxy hemoglobin; Trial to trial variability; Wireless functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; OBSERVATION; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855879375     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.12.038     Document Type: Article

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