Reflecting on Mirror Mechanisms: Motor Resonance Effects during Action Observation Only Present with Low-Intensity Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Loporto, Michela ^a   Holmes, Paul S ^a   Wright, David J ^b   McAllister, Craig J ^c  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR FACILITATION; MOTOR RESONANCE EFFECT; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIMAL SCALP POSITION; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RESTING MOTOR THRESHOLD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION INTENSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SCALP; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878408531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064911     Document Type: Article

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