Motor Imagery of Finger Movements: Effects on Cortical and Muscle activities

P Sengupta, K Lakshminarayanan - Behavioural Brain Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of the current study was to explore the immediate effect of motor
imagery (MI) involving finger movement of a given limb on cortical response and muscle …

Motor imagery influences the execution of repetitive finger opposition movements

L Avanzino, A Giannini, A Tacchino, E Pelosin… - Neuroscience …, 2009 - Elsevier
Motor imagery (MI) is the ability to imagine performing a movement without executing it. In
literature, there have been numerous reports on the influence of MI on motor practice and …

How does motor imagery speed affect motor performance times? Evaluating the effects of task specificity

U Debarnot, M Louis, C Collet… - Applied cognitive …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The present experiment investigated whether motor imagery (MI) performed at a faster
speed might influence the actual motor performance duration by comparing real‐time vs. fast …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced motor imagery of digits within the same hand via vibrotactile stimulation

V Ramu, K Lakshminarayanan - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose The aim of the present study is to evaluate the effect of vibrotactile stimulation prior
to repeated complex motor imagery of finger movements using the non-dominant hand on …

Long-term training-dependent representation of individual finger movements in the primary motor cortex

K Ogawa, K Mitsui, F Imai, S Nishida - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
We investigated the effects of long-term training on the neural representation of individual
finger movements in the primary sensorimotor cortex. One group of participants (trained …

[HTML][HTML] Muscle activation during grasping with and without motor imagery in healthy volunteers and patients after stroke or with Parkinson's disease

M Kobelt, B Wirth, C Schuster-Amft - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: The present study assessed whether motor imagery (MI) produces
electromyographic activation in specific muscles of the upper limb during a hand grasping …

Physical practice induces excitability changes in human hand motor area during motor imagery

M Takahashi, S Hayashi, Z Ni, S Yahagi… - Experimental brain …, 2005 - Springer
The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects of physical practice on
excitability changes in human primary motor cortex (M1) during motor imagery (MI). Using …

[HTML][HTML] Handedness effects on motor imagery during kinesthetic and visual-motor conditions

D Zapała, P Iwanowicz, P Francuz, P Augustynowicz - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Recent studies show that during a simple movement imagery task, the power of
sensorimotor rhythms differs according to handedness. However, the effects of motor …

Activation of cortical and cerebellar motor areas during executed and imagined hand movements: an fMRI study

M Lotze, P Montoya, M Erb, E Hülsmann… - Journal of cognitive …, 1999 - direct.mit.edu
Brain activation during executed (EM) and imagined movements (IM) of the right and left
hand was studied in 10 healthy right-handed subjects using functional magnetic resonance …

Motor system activation during motor imagery is positively related to the magnitude of cortical plastic changes following motor imagery training

E Yoxon, TN Welsh - Behavioural brain research, 2020 - Elsevier
Motor imagery (MI) is a cognitive motor process wherein a person consciously imagines
themselves performing a movement. Previous transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) …