Modulation of corticospinal excitability during acquisition of action sequences by observation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Sakamoto, Masanori ^a,b   Moriyama, Noriyoshi ^a   Mizuguchi, Nobuaki ^a   Muraoka, Tetsuro ^c   Kanosue, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSPINAL EXCITABILITY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND MUSCLE; HAND POSTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVATION; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861219240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037061     Document Type: Article

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