Cortico-spinal embodiment of newly acquired, action-related semantic associations

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 952-958

  Vicario, Carmelo Mario ^a,b,c   Candidi, Matteo ^a,b   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Memory consolidation; Motor evoked potentials; Semantic learning; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; READING; SEMANTICS; SOCCER; TENNIS; TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EMBODIED COGNITION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS; SEMANTIC LEARNING; TMS;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888007871     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2013.05.010     Document Type: Article

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