Winning the game: Brain processes in expert, young elite and amateur table tennis players

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue October, 2014, Pages

  Wolf, Sebastian ^a   Brölz, Ellen ^b   Scholz, David ^a   Ramos Murguialday, Ander ^a,c   Keune, Philipp M ^d,e   Hautzinger, Martin ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,f,g   Strehl, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^f SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g GERMAN CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH DZD   (Germany)

Author keywords

EEG; Elite athletes; ERD ERS; Motor efficiency; Motor skill; Sensorimotor rhythm; Table tennis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMATEUR TABLE TENNIS PLAYER; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EXPERT TABLE TENNIS PLAYER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; SENSORIMOTOR RHYTHM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ELITE TABLE TENNIS PLAYER;

EID: 84908372791     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00370     Document Type: Article

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