Action Observation Therapy Before Sleep Hours: An EEG Study

Action Observation Therapy (AOT) is a rehabilitation method which aims at stimulating motor memory by means of the repetitive observation of motor tasks presented through video-clips. Since sleep seems to have a positive effect on learning processes, it is reasonable to hypothesize that the delivery of AOT immediately before sleep hours could enhance the effects of motor training. The objective of the present work was to test the effect of AOT delivered before the sleep hours in terms of impr...

Effects of action observation training on brain network efficency during motor tasks

Event-Related Desynchronization Analysis During Action Observation and Motor Imagery of Transitive Movements

Rehabilitation and motor skill learning approaches based on Action Observation (AO) and Motor Imagery (MI) rely on the assumption that the sensorimotor system is stimulated by AO and MI tasks similarly to the actual execution of a movement. An advantage of AO over MI is that it is less dependent on subject’s imagination ability, and a direct comparison of their effect on cortical activations during complex upper limb movements has been rarely examined. Therefore, in this study we compare sens...

Association Between Variations in Kinematic Indexes of Manual Dexterity and Mu Rhythm Desynchronization Changes After Action Observation and Motor Imagery

The Mirror Neuron System functioning have enabled the development of Action Observation and Motor Imagery (AOMI) as effective approaches to enhance manual dexterity. Improvements in manual dexterity can be quantified using kinematic indexes during the execution of clinical and functional tests, and neurodynamical correlates of such changes may also be investigated through EEG recording. The current study aimed at investigating (1) kinematic and EEG mu rhythm desynchronization changes after an...