Topic: overt movement

Motor imagery and overt movement have been hypothesized to be functionally equivalent. At the same time there is evidence that hints at distinct mechanisms of both processes. To explore this disparity, we investigated whether prior imagined movements had the same effect as prior overt movements on motor adaptation performance during a subsequent reach. Additionally, we aimed to identify neuronal correlates of motor imagery predicting such motor adaptation.Movement kinematics (exoskeleton robot, Kinarm Lab) and EEG of 60 participants were recorded to investigate direction-specific adaptation du