Do imagined and executed actions share the same neural substrate?

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 87-93

  Decety, Jean ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Autonomic response; Brain activation; Cognitive motor process; Mental chronometry; Motor imagery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029927872     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0926-6410(95)00033-X     Document Type: Article

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