Enhancement of motor imagery-related cortical activation during first-person observation measured by functional near-infrared spectroscopy

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1513-1521

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

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

FNIRS; Motor execution; Motor imagery; Premotor cortex; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; OBSERVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860685139     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08062.x     Document Type: Article

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