Motor Imagery in Clinical Disorders: Importance and Implications
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Motor Imagery in Clinical Disorders: Importance and Implications
One of our most remarkable mental capacities is the ability to use our imagination voluntarily to mimic or simulate sensations, actions, and other experiences. For example, we can “see” things in our mind’s eye,“hear”sounds in our mind’s ear, and imagine motor experiences like running away from, or perhaps “freezing” in the face of, danger. Since the early 1900s (1), researchers have investigat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychiatry
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1664-0640
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00023