Brain activity during motor imagery of an action with an object: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 150-155

  Mizuguchi, Nobuaki ^a,d   Nakata, Hiroki ^a   Hayashi, Takuji ^a   Sakamoto, Masanori ^b   Muraoka, Tetsuro ^c   Uchida, Yusuke ^a   Kanosue, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FMRI; Frontal parietal circuit; Grasp; Mental practice; Motor imagery; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CUNEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879010980     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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