Cortico-cortical connectivity between right parietal and bilateral primary motor cortices during imagined and observed actions: A combined TMS/tDCS study

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  Feurra, Matteo ^a   Bianco, Giovanni ^a   Polizzotto, Nicola R ^a   Innocenti, Iglis ^a   Rossi, Alessandro ^a   Rossi, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action observation; Connectivity; M1; Motor imagery; Right PC; tDCS; TMS

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR DIGITI MINIMI MUSCLE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS MUSCLE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECISION GRIP; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REST; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84873707623     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2011.00010     Document Type: Article

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