Brain activity during observation of actions. Influence of action content and subject's strategy

Brain

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1763-1777

  Decety, J ^a   Grezes J ^a   Costes, N ^a   Perani, D ^c   Jeannerod, M ^a   Procyk, E ^a   Grassi, F ^b   Fazio, F ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Inserm Unit 280 ^*

Author keywords

Action; Cognition; Imitation; Observation; PET; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL LOBE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; CUES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0345650075     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/120.10.1763     Document Type: Article

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