Mental practice promotes motor anticipation: Evidence from skilled music performance

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Bernardi, Nicolò Francesco ^a   De Buglio, Matteo ^a   Trimarchi, Pietro Davide ^a   Chielli, Alfonso ^b   Bricolo, Emanuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b Music Conservatory 'Giuseppe Verdi'   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory imagery; Mental Practice; Motor anticipation; Motor coordination; Motor Imagery; Music performance; Musicians' injuries

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; KINEMATICS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VELOCITY; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 84933678424     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00451     Document Type: Article

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