Mirror symmetric bimanual movement priming can increase corticomotor excitability and enhance motor learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Byblow, Winston D ^a   Stinear, Cathy M ^a   Smith, Marie Claire ^a   Bjerre, Lotte ^b   Flaskager, Brian K ^b   McCambridge, Alana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOMOTOR EXCITABILITY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT INHIBITION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MIRROR SYMMETRIC BIMANUAL MOVEMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; REHABILITATION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY);

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84863361357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033882     Document Type: Article

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