Enhanced extrastriate activation during observation of distorted finger postures

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 658-663

  Avikainen, Sari ^a   Liuhanen, Sasu ^a   Schürmann, Martin ^a   Hari, Riitta ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FINGER; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0038779740     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2003.15.5.658     Document Type: Article

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