Prior action execution has no effect on corticospinal facilitation during action observation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 124-129

  Loporto, Michela ^a   McAllister, Craig J ^b   Edwards, Martin G ^c   Wright, David J ^a   Holmes, Paul S ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Action observation; Mirror system; Motor facilitation; Observation execution network; Training effect; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACTION EXECUTION; ACTION OBSERVATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECISION GRIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84859322313     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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