Body-specific motor imagery of hand actions: neural evidence from right- and left-handers

If motor imagery uses neural structures involved in action execution, then the neural correlates of imagining an action should differ between individuals who tend to execute the action differently. Here we report fMRI data showing that motor imagery is influenced by the way people habitually perform...

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Main Authors: Roel M Willems, Ivan Toni, Peter Hagoort, Daniel Casasanto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2009-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.09.039.2009/full