Improvement in precision grip force control with self-modulation of primary motor cortex during motor imagery

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Blefari, Maria L ^a,b   Sulzer, James ^a,c   Hepp Reymond, Marie Claude ^d   Kollias, Spyros ^e   Gassert, Roger ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Motor imagery; Motor skill; Neurofeedback; Real time fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR IMAGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROFEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PINCH STRENGTH; PRECISION GRIP; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84923259503     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00018     Document Type: Article

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