title: Functional inter-cortical connectivity among motor-related cortices during motor imagery: A magnetoencephalographic study.
abstract: Neural connectivity was measured during motor imagery (MI) and motor execution (ME) using magnetoencephalography in nine healthy subjects, MI, and at rest. Lower coherence values during ME and MI between sensorimotor areas than at rest, and lower values during MI between the left supplementary motor area and inferior frontal gyrus than ME suggested the sensorimotor network of MI functioned with similar connectivity to ME and that the inhibitory activity functioned continuously during MI, respectively.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Rehabilitation Sciences , Nagoya University , Higashi-ku, Nagoya , Japan.
authors.forename: Yota
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Obayashi
authors.affiliation: a Department of Rehabilitation Sciences , Nagoya University , Higashi-ku, Nagoya , Japan.
authors.forename: Jun-Ichi
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Uemura
authors.affiliation: a Department of Rehabilitation Sciences , Nagoya University , Higashi-ku, Nagoya , Japan.|b Brain and Mind Research Center, Nagoya University , Higashi-ku, Nagoya , Japan.
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoshiyama
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001931:Brain Mapping; D005385:Fingers / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D015225:Magnetoencephalography; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology*; D066191:Sensorimotor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Connectivity; imagery; motor control; motor inhibition