Action recognition in the premotor cortex

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 593-609

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action encoding; Macaque monkey; Premotor cortex; Visual responses

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; HAND MOVEMENT; MACACA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOUTH; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029944419     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.2.593     Document Type: Article

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