Different performances in static and dynamic imagery and real locomotion. An exploratory trial

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Fusco, Augusto ^a,b   Iosa, Marco ^b   Gallotta, Maria Chiara ^a   Paolucci, Stefano ^b   Baldari, Carlo ^a   Guidetti, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronometry; Dynamic motor imagery; Healthy; Human locomotion; Mental representation; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMIC MOTOR IMAGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RUNNING; STATIC MOTOR IMAGERY; WALKING;

EID: 84933674414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00760     Document Type: Article

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