A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of visuomotor processing in a virtual reality-based paradigm: Rehabilitation Gaming System

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1441-1447

  Prochnow, D ^a   Bermudez i Badia S ^c   Schmidt, J ^a   Duff, A ^b   Brunheim, S ^a   Kleiser, R ^a,d   Seitz, R J ^a   Verschure, P F M J ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c MADEIRA INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^d KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

FMRI; Mirror neuron system; Motor imagery; Neurorehabilitation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT; REHABILITATION GAMING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIRROR NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84877603928     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12157     Document Type: Article

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