Visually guided motor imagery activates sensorimotor areas in humans.

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Department of Medical Informatics, and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Medical Informatics and Neuroinformatics, Technical University Graz, Austria.

Published: July 1999

Stimulus-related changes in ongoing electroencephalography (EEG) over sensorimotor areas were investigated during a visually cued motor imagery task. Four subjects were instructed to imagine one-sided hand movements in response to visual cue stimuli. The EEG was recorded from central areas using 27 electrodes set at distances of 2.5 cm. The method of common spatial filters was used to extract discriminatory information of EEG patterns recorded during the two motor imagery conditions. Single EEG trials were classified in intervals of 250 ms for a 8-s period starting 3 s prior to stimulus presentation. The results suggest that perception of the visual cue stimulus modifies oscillations in sensorimotor areas specific to the indicated hand starting as soon as 250-500 ms after stimulus onset.

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