The effect of chronic deafferentation on mental imagery: A case study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  ter Horst, Arjan C ^a,b   Cole, Jonathan ^c   van Lier, Rob ^a   Steenbergen, Bert ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR IMAGERY; PERCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; ROTATION;

EID: 84864713187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042742     Document Type: Article

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