Motor imagery and higher-level cognition: Four hurdles before research can sprint forward

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 211-229

  Madan, Christopher R ^a,b   Singhal, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Embodied cognition; Language; Memory; Mental imagery; Motor imagery; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; MOTOR IMAGERY; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH;

EID: 84865352016     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-012-0438-z     Document Type: Review

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