Effector-independent brain activity during motor imagery of the upper and lower limbs: An fMRI study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 581, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-74

  Mizuguchi, Nobuaki ^a   Nakata, Hiroki ^a   Kanosue, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Area 44; Foot; Hand; Mental practice; Supplemental motor area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANKLE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HAND; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; JOINT FUNCTION; LEG; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR IMAGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPPLEMENTAL MOTOR AREA; VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX; ARM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN FUNCTION; FOOT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INSULA; INSULA LOBE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; OLFACTORY CORTEX; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PUTAMEN; ROLANDIC OPERCULUM; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SUPRA MARGINAL GYRUS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; UPPER EXTREMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906846276     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.08.025     Document Type: Article

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