Motor imagery of hand actions: Decoding the content of motor imagery from brain activity in frontal and parietal motor areas

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 81-93

  Pilgramm, Sebastian ^a   de Haas, Benjamin ^b,c   Helm, Fabian ^a   Zentgraf, Karen ^a,d   Stark, Rudolf ^a   Munzert, Jörn ^a   Krüger, Britta ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action mapping; FMRI; Motor cortex; Motor imagery; MVPA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BLOOD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGINATION; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954385612     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23015     Document Type: Article

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