Non-physical practice improves task performance in an unstable, perturbed environment: Motor imagery and observational balance training

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Taube, Wolfgang ^a   Lorch, Michael ^b   Zeiter, Sibylle ^c   Keller, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balance control; Mental training; Motor imagery learning; Observational learning; Posture control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITABILITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; MALE; MOTOR IMAGERY BALANCE TRAINING; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL BALANCE TRAINING; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 84937699658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00972     Document Type: Article

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