Does motor imagery share neural networks with executed movement: a multivariate fMRI analysis.

Introduction Motor imagery (MI) is the mental rehearsal of a motor first person action-representation. There is interest in using MI to access the motor network after stroke. Conventional fMRI modelling has shown that MI and executed movement (EM) activate similar cortical areas but it remains unkno...

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Main Authors: Nikhil eSharma, Jean-Claude eBaron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00564/full