NIRS-detected changes in the motor cortex during mental rehearsal of physical activity (imaginary exercise)

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 578, Issue , 2006, Pages 185-190

  Cooper, Chris E ^a   Pryor, Duncan ^a   Hall, Caroline ^a   Griffin, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934440996     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-29540-2_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (20)

1. M. Jeannerod and V. Frak, Mental imaging of motor activity in humans, Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 9, 735-739. (1999).
2. E. Jacobson, Electrical measurement of neuromuscular states during mental activity, Amer. J. Physiol. 94, 22-34 (1930).
3. R. M. Suinn, in: Psychology in sports: Methods and applications, edited by R. Suinn (Burgess International, Minneapolis, 1980), pp. 26-36.
4. E. I. Bird, EMG quantification of mental practice, Percept. Mot. Skills 59, 899-906 (1984).
5. M. Bonnet, J. Decety, M. Jeannerod, and J. Requin, Mental simulation of an action modulates the excitability of spinal reflex pathways in man, Brain Res. Cogn. Brain Res. 5, 221-228. (1997).
6. B. D. Hale, The effects of internal and external imagery on muscular and ocular concomitants, J. Sport Psychol. 4, 379-387 (1982).
7. T. Wehner, S. Vogt, and M. Stadler, Task-specific EMG-characteristics during mental training, Psych. Res. 46, 389-401 (1984).
8. S. Yahagi, K. Shimura, and T. Kasai, An increase in cortical excitability with no change in spinal excitability during motor imagery, Percept. Mot. Skills 83, 288-290. (1996).
9. J. M. Slade, D. M. Landers, and P. E. Martin, Muscular activity during real and imagined movements: A test of inflow explanations, J. Sport Exerc. Psychol. 24, 151-167 (2002).
10. B. S. Hale, J. S. Raglin, and D. M. Koceja, Effect of mental imagery of a motor task on the Hoffmann reflex, Behav. Brain Res. 142, 81-87 (2003).
11. J. Decety, H. Sjoholm, E. Ryding, G. Stenberg, and D. H. Ingvar, The cerebellum participates in mental activity: tomographic measurements of regional cerebral blood flow, Brain Res. 535, 313-317 (1990).
12. J. Decety, D. Perani, M. Jeannerod, V. Bettinardi, B. Tadary, R. Woods, J. C. Mazziotta, and F. Fazio, Mapping motor representations with positron emission tomography, Nature 371, 600-602 (1994).
13. D. F. Marks and A. R. Isaac, Topographical Distribution of Eeg Activity Accompanying Visual and Motor Imagery in Vivid and Non-Vivid Imagers, Br. J. Psychol. 86, 271-282 (1995).
14. A. Schnitzler, S. Salenius, R. Salmelin, V. Jousmaki, and R. Hari, Involvement of primary motor cortex in motor imagery: a neuromagnetic study, Neuroimage 6, 201-208 (1997).
15. C. A. Porro, M. P. Francescato, V. Cettolo, M. E. Diamond, P. Baraldi, C. Zuiani, M. Bazzocchi, and P. E. di Prampero, Primary motor and sensory cortex activation during motor performance and motor imagery: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study, J. Neorosci. 16, 7688-7698. (1996).
16. J. Decety, Do imagined and executed actions share the same neural substrate?, Brain Res. Cogn. Brain Res. 3, 87-93. (1996).
17. M. P. Deiber, V. Ibanez, M. Honda, N. Sadato, R. Raman, and M. Hallett, Cerebral processes related to visuomotor imagery and generation of simple finger movements studied with positron emission tomography, Neuroimage 7, 73-85 (1998).
18. C. E. Cooper, M. Blannin, C. Hall, and M. Griffin, NIRS-detected changes in the arm during mental rehearsal of physical activity (imaginary exercise), Adv. Exp. Biol. Med. This issue, (2005).
19. G. Yue and K. J. Cole, Strength increases from the motor program: comparison of training with maximal voluntary and imagined muscle contractions, J. Neurophysiol. 67, 1114-1123. (1992).
20. G. H. Yue, S. L. Wilson, K. J. Cole, W. G. Darling, and W. T. C. Yuh, Imagined muscle contraction training increases voluntary neural drive to muscle, J. Psychophysiol. 10, 198-208 (1996).