The brain's sense of walking: A study on the intertwine between locomotor imagery and internal locomotor models in healthy adults, typically developing children and children with cerebral palsy

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue October, 2014, Pages

  Iosa, Marco ^a   Zoccolillo, Loredana ^a   Montesi, Michela ^a,b   Morelli, Daniela ^a   Paolucci, Stefano ^a   Fusco, Augusto ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Gait; Internal model; Locomotion; Locomotor body schema; Motor imagery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

EID: 84933671111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00859     Document Type: Article

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