Neuronal underpinnings of auditory verbal hallucination remain poorly understood. One suggested mechanism is brain activation that is similar to verbal imagery but occurs without the proper activation of the neuronal systems that are required to tag the origins of verbal imagery in one's mind. Such neuronal systems involve the supplementary motor area. The supplementary motor area has been asso...

The mu rhythm is an 8-13 Hz oscillation which can be detected over human sensorimotor cortex in brain signals such as the electroencephalogram (EEG). This rhythm is desynchronized by movement, observing the movement of others, and imagined self movement [3]. In this study we combine motor imagery and movement observation. We show that the majority of subjects tested produce an enhanced mu desyn...

It is believed that motor performance improves when individuals direct attention to movement outcome (external focus, EF) rather than to body movement itself (internal focus, IF). However, our previous study found that an optimal individual attentional strategy depended on motor imagery ability. We explored whether the individual motor imagery ability in stroke patients also affected the optima...

In this paper, we address a method for motor imagery feature extraction for brain computer interface (BCI). The wavelet coefficients were used to extract the features from the motor imagery EEG and the linear discriminant analysis was utilized to classify the pattern of left or right hand imagery movement and rest. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated using EEG data recorded by ...

The present study examined the differential effects of kinesthetic imagery (first person perspective) and visual imagery (third person perspective) on postural sway during quiet standing. Based on an embodied cognition perspective, the authors predicted that kinesthetic imagery would lead to activations in movement-relevant motor systems to a greater degree than visual imagery. This prediction ...

According to embodied theories of language, people understand a verb like throw, at least in part, by mentally simulating throwing. This implicit simulation is often assumed to be similar or identical to motor imagery. Here we used fMRI to test whether implicit simulations of actions during language understanding involve the same cortical motor regions as explicit motor imagery. Healthy partici...

Over the last few decades, motor imagery has attracted the attention of researchers as a prototypical example of 'embodied cognition' and also as a basis for neuro-rehabilitation and brain-machine interfaces. The current definition of motor imagery is widely accepted, but it is important to note that various abilities rather than a single cognitive entity are dealt with under a single term. Her...