Christian Collet and Aymeric Guillot
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199546251
- eISBN:
- 9780191701412
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546251.003.0007
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Sensory and Motor Systems
This chapter explores the experimental studies investigating motor imagery through the recording of autonomic nervous system activity. It ...
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This chapter explores the experimental studies investigating motor imagery through the recording of autonomic nervous system activity. It outlines the goals and methods of such peripheral recordings in studying mental processes. It also discusses how the motor commands sent to the autonomic effectors are facilitated during motor imagery, whereas the direct voluntary commands transmitted through the pyramidal tract are at least partially inhibited.Less
This chapter explores the experimental studies investigating motor imagery through the recording of autonomic nervous system activity. It outlines the goals and methods of such peripheral recordings in studying mental processes. It also discusses how the motor commands sent to the autonomic effectors are facilitated during motor imagery, whereas the direct voluntary commands transmitted through the pyramidal tract are at least partially inhibited.
