It has been proposed that motor imagery contains an element of sensory experiences (kinesthetic sensations), which is a substitute for the sensory feedback that would normally arise from the overt action. No evidence has been provided about whether kinesthetic sensation is centrally simulated during motor imagery. We psychophysically tested whether motor imagery of palmar flexion or dorsiflexio...

In this study we summarize the features that characterize the pre-movements and pre-motor imageries (before imagining the movement) electroencephalography (EEG) data in humans from both Neuroscientists' and Engineers' point of view. We demonstrate what the brain status is before a voluntary movement and how it has been used in practical applications such as brain computer interfaces (BCIs). Usu...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether motor imagery during the immobilization period after flexor tendon injury results in a faster recovery of central mechanisms of hand function. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Tertiary referral hospital. PARTICIPANTS Patients (N=28) after surgical flexor tendon repair were assigned to either an intervention group or a control group. INTERVENTION...

When you shoot some hoops or kick a ball, the areas in your brain responsible for planning, coordinating, and performing movements are active. These are the so-called motor areas. But the motor areas are not only involved when you actually perform a movement, they are also activated when you imagine performing movements. The fact that actual movement and imaginary movement activate similar brai...

The influence of general wine imagery vividness on consumers' reported desire to drink was investigated. In Study 1, the Vividness Wine Imagery Questionnaire (VWIQ) revised and validated so that it included dimensions sight, smell, flavor, mouthfeel. Mouthfeel is an important factor in appreciation, both for consumers experts. 2, we demonstrated usage VWIQ a consumer context: participants were ...

Although there is converging experimental and clinical evidences suggesting that mental training with motor imagery can improve motor performance, it is unclear how humans can learn movements through mental training despite the lack of sensory feedback from the body and the environment. In a first experiment, we measured the trial-by-trial decrease in durations of executed movements (physical t...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether mu rhythm based BCIs can be implemented using the low cost Emotiv Epoc EEG device. Synchronisation in the high alpha and low beta band caused by continuous imagery and real toes movement was recorded on 6 healthy subjects. We apply LDA and SVM classifiers in order to classify a trial as movement or non-movement by computing the power of the band ...

There is little consensus on how motor imagery ability should be measured in stroke patients. In particular it is unclear how two methods tapping different aspects of the motor imagery process relate to each other. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between implicit and explicit motor imagery ability by comparing performance of stroke patients and controls on a motor imag...