Motor resonance in left- and right-handers: Evidence for effector-independent motor representations

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Sartori, Luisa ^a   Begliomini, Chiara ^a   Castiello, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action observation; Handedness; Motor evoked potentials; Motor representations; Motor resonance; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84933672479     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00033     Document Type: Article

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