Top-down modulation of brain activity underlying intentional action and its relationship with awareness of intention: An ERP/Laplacian analysis

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 347-357

  Rigoni, Davide ^a,b,c   Brass, Marcel ^c,d   Roger, Clémence ^e   Vidal, Franck ^b   Sartori, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

Author keywords

Action preparation; Conscious intention; Laplacian; Readiness potential; SMAs; W judgement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPH; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; WAVEFORM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892820757     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3400-0     Document Type: Article

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