The modulation of motor cortex excitability during motor imagery depends on imagery quality

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 323-331

  Lebon, Florent ^a   Byblow, Winston D ^a   Collet, Christian ^b   Guillot, Aymeric ^b   Stinear, Cathy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Corticomotor excitability; Imagery quality; Motor imagery; Short interval intracortical inhibition and facilitation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855954501     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07938.x     Document Type: Article

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