Constraining movement alters the recruitment of motor processes in mental rotation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 447-454

  Moreau, David ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body posture; Embodiment; Mental rotation; Motor processes; Sensorimotor expertise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL ROTATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRESTLING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

EID: 84873731625     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3324-0     Document Type: Article

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