Bi-hemispheric effects on corticospinal excitability induced by repeated sessions of imagery versus observation of actions

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 481-489

  Bianco, Giovanni ^a   Feurra, Matteo ^b   Fadiga, Luciano ^b   Rossi, Alessandro ^a   Rossi, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

actions observation; learning; mirror neurons; motor imagery; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRECISION GRIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIRROR NEURONS; MOTOR CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84872228650     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2012-120241     Document Type: Article

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