Motor cortex excitability is tightly coupled to observed movements

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2341-2347

  Sartori, Luisa ^a   Bucchioni, Giulia ^a   Castiello, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action observation; Kinematics; Motor evoked potentials; Reach to grasp; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR DIGITI MINIMI MUSCLE; ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEUS MUSCLE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE FUNCTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VIDEORECORDING; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863880776     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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