Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 131-141

  Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^a   Fadiga, Luciano ^a   Gallese, Vittorio ^a   Fogassi, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Gesture recognition; Mirror neuron; Movement representation; Premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029863586     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0926-6410(95)00038-0     Document Type: Article

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