The essential role of Broca's area in imitation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1123-1128

  Heiser, Marc ^a,c   Iacoboni, Marco ^a,b   Maeda, Fumiko ^a,b   Marcus, Jake ^a   Mazziotta, John C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inferior frontal cortex; Language; Mirror neurons; Motor control; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BROCA AREA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FINGERS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037353953     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02530.x     Document Type: Article

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