Corticomotor excitability during observation and imagination of a work of art

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUGUST, 2011, Pages

  Battaglia, Fortunato ^a,b   Lisanby, Sarah H ^c   Freedberg, David ^d  

^a NEW YORK COLLEGE OF PODIATRIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Art History and Italian Academy for Advanced Studies Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Art; Mental imagery; Mirror neurons; Motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PAINTING; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933671304     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00079     Document Type: Article

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