Initiation of voluntary movements at free will and ongoing 0.1-Hz BOLD oscillations in the insula—A pilot study

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Pfurtscheller, Gert ^a,b   Andrade, Alexandre ^c   Koschutnig, Karl ^b,d   Brunner, Clemens ^a,b   da Silva, Fernando Lopes ^e  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BIOTECHMED GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

0.1 Hz oscillations; BOLD; fMRI; Insula; Voluntary movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; FREE WILL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84917726856     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2014.00093     Document Type: Article

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