It's how you get there: Walking down a virtual alley activates premotor and parietal areas

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Wagner, Johanna ^a   Solis Escalante, Teodoro ^a,b   Scherer, Reinhold ^a,c   Neuper, Christa ^a,d   Müller Putz, Gernot ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Rehabilitation Clinic Judendorf Strassengel   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Gait adaptation; Interactive feedback; Locomotion; Motor planning; Neurorehabilitation; Robotic gait training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL STIMULATION; WALKING;

EID: 84902971301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00093     Document Type: Article

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