A fronto-parietal circuit for object manipulation in man: Evidence from an fMRI-study

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3276-3286

  Binkofski, F ^a   Buccino, G ^b   Posse, S ^c   Seitz, R J ^a   Rizzolatti, G ^b   Freund, H J ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inferior parietal cortex; Object manipulation; Secondary somatosensory area (SII); Ventral premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FINGERS; FRONTAL LOBE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032849048     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00753.x     Document Type: Article

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