title: Mental motor imagery: a window into the representational stages of action.
abstract: The physiological basis of mental states can be effectively studied by combining cognitive psychology with human neuroscience. Recent research has employed mental motor imagery in normal and brain-damaged subjects to decipher the content and the structure of covert processes preceding the execution of action. The mapping of brain activity during motor imagery discloses a pattern of activation similar to that of an executed action.
authors.affiliation: Vision et Motricité, INSERM Unité 94, Bron, France. decety@lyon151.inserm.fr
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jeannerod
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Decety
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*