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The neural basis of narrative imagery
The neural basis of narrative imagery: emotion and action. Prog Brain Res. 2006;156:93-103 Authors: Sabatinelli D, Lang PJ, Bradley MM, Flaisch T It has been proposed that narrative emotional imagery activates an associative network of stimulus, semantic, and response (procedural) infor... Read more ...
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Effects of motor imagery training after spinal...
Effects of motor imagery training after chronic, complete spinal cord injury. Exp Brain Res. 2006 Aug 31; Authors: Cramer SC, Orr EL, Cohen MJ, Lacourse MG Abnormalities in brain motor system function are present following spinal cord injury (SCI) and could reduce effectiveness of resto... Read more ...
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Mapping implied body actions in the human motor...
Mapping implied body actions in the human motor system. J Neurosci. 2006 Jul 26;26(30):7942-9 Authors: Urgesi C, Moro V, Candidi M, Aglioti SM The human visual system is highly tuned to perceive actual motion as well as to extrapolate dynamic information from static pictures of objects ... Read more ...
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Motor Imagery. A Backdoor to the Motor System...
Stroke. 2006 Jun 1; Authors: Sharma N, Pomeroy VM, Baron JC BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Understanding brain plasticity after stroke is important in developing rehabilitation strategies. Active movement therapies show considerable promise but depend on motor performance, excluding many otherwi... Read more ...
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Science News: Fitness is good for the brain
From the latest article in Science News Online: New research suggests that physical exercise encourages healthy brains to function at their optimum levels. Fitness prompts nerve cells to multiply, strengthens their connections, and protects them from harm. Benefits seem to extend to brains a... Read more ...
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Modulation of beta oscillations in the...
Brain . 2005 Dec 19; Authors: Kühn AA, Doyle L, Pogosyan A, Yarrow K, Kupsch A, Schneider GH, Hariz MI, Trottenberg T, Brown P Activation of the basal ganglia has been shown during the preparation and execution of movement. However, the extent to which the activation during movement is rel... Read more ...
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Mental imagery combined with physical practice...
Percept Mot Skills . 2005 Aug;101(1):203-11 Authors: Brouziyne M, Molinaro C Recent research on motor skills of golf have pointed to the usefulness of mental imagery. In golf, such training is rarely used as a teaching technique for beginners on the grounds that only top professionals stan... Read more ...
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Improvement and generalization of arm motor...
Neuroscience . 2005 Dec 7; Authors: Gentili R, Papaxanthis C, Pozzo T This study compares the improvement and generalization of arm motor performance after physical or mental training in a motor task requiring a speed-accuracy tradeoff. During the pre- and post-training sessions, 40 subjec... Read more ...
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Influence of imagined posture and imagery...
Behav Brain Res . 2005 Nov 25 Authors: Fourkas AD, Ionta S, Aglioti SM Single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to test the assumption that kinesthetic imagery of action is more 'motor' than visual imagery of action. We assessed corticospinal excitability during moto... Read more ...
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EMG Activity in Selected Target Muscles During...
J Mot Behav. 2005 Nov;37(5):475-83 Authors: Dickstein R, Gazit-Grunwald M, Plax M, Dunsky A, Marcovitz E The authors sought to gain further knowledge about activation of target muscles during imagery engagement in a motor task. Six hemiparetic patients and 9 healthy participants performed 3 r... Read more ...