Activity of right premotor-parietal regions dependent upon imagined force level: An fMRI study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Mizuguchi, Nobuaki ^a   Nakata, Hiroki ^a,b   Kanosue, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grasp; Motor imagery; Parietal cortex; Premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; IMAGINED FORCE LEVEL; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INSULA; MALE; MOTOR IMAGERY; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933679311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00810     Document Type: Article

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