Research identifies a key neural region involved in motor imagery for elite athletes, highlighting the brain's role in imagination.
Abstract Motor imagery (MI), as practiced by elite athletes to improve performance, provides a model of how covert thought – imagination – can affect subsequent behavior. We sought to identify brain regions involved in complex MI in a group of elite female ice hockey players using magnetoencephalography (MEG), and found the principal locus of neural activity in a posterior dominant hemisphere cortical region surrounding the intraparietal sulcus.
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