Somatosensory cortex excitability changes due to differences in instruction conditions of motor imagery
Somatosensory cortex excitability changes due to differences in instruction conditions of motor imagery
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DOI:
10.1080/08990220.2017.1368476
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发表时间:
2017-01-01
影响因子:
0.9
通讯作者:
Higashi, Toshio
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作者:
Hasegawa, Takashi;Miyata, Hironori;Higashi, Toshio
Purpose Vivid motor imagery appears to be associated with improved motor learning efficiency. However, the practical difficulties in measuring vivid motor imagery warrant new analytical approaches. The present study aimed to determine the instruction conditions for which vividness in motor imagery could be more easily seen and the excitability of the sensory cortex as it relates to the motor image. Materials and methods In total, 15 healthy, right-handed volunteers were instructed to imagine grasping a rubber ball under a verbal-only instruction condition (verbal condition), a verbal+visual instruction condition (visual condition), and a verbal+execution (physically grasping a real ball) condition (execution condition). We analyzed motor imagery-related changes in somatosensory cortical excitability by comparing somatosensory-evoked potentials in each condition with the rest (control) condition. We also used a visual analogue scale to measure subject-reported vividness of imagery. Results We found the N33 component was significantly lower in the execution condition than in the rest condition (p