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Electrographic Properties of Movement-Related Potentials

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The amplitude and spectral characteristics of the EEG recorded in 24 essentially healthy subjects during real and mental performance of hand, leg, and tongue movements were studied. Execution of movements was found to be accompanied by increases in the EEG power of the δ and θ frequencies on the background of marked reductions in the α and β1 frequencies. The sensorimotor and associative areas of both hemispheres of the brain were actively involved both in execution of real voluntary movements and mental imagery, especially at rapid (γ) frequencies.

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    D. M. Lazurenko, V. N. Kiroy, E. V. Aslanyan, I. E. Shepelev, O. M. Bakhtin & N. R. Minyaeva

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Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel’nosti imeni I. P. Pavlova, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 430–444 July–August, 2017.

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Lazurenko, D.M., Kiroy, V.N., Aslanyan, E.V. et al. Electrographic Properties of Movement-Related Potentials. Neurosci Behav Physi 48, 1078–1087 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-018-0670-9

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