Mirror neurons responding to the observation of ingestive and communicative mouth actions in the monkey ventral premotor cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1703-1714

  Ferrari, Pier Francesco ^a   Gallese, Vittorio ^a   Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^a   Fogassi, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action recognition; Communication; Macaca nemestrina; Mirror system; Premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; HAND MOVEMENT; INGESTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIP; MASTICATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUTH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUTH; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038017312     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02601.x     Document Type: Article

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