Simultaneous EEG-fNIRS reveals how age and feedback affect motor imagery signatures

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 49, Issue , 2017, Pages 183-197

  Zich, Catharina ^a   Debener, Stefan ^a   Thoene, Ann Kathrin ^a   Chen, Ling Chia ^a   Kranczioch, Cornelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain computer interface; Concurrent EEG fNIRS; Movement execution; Movement imagination; Multimodal imaging

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR IMAGERY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; AGED; AGING; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STROKE REHABILITATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROFEEDBACK; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STROKE REHABILITATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85002187763     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.10.011     Document Type: Article

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