A system in the human brain for predicting the actions of others

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-90

  Ramnani, Narender ^a   Miall, R Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARACINGULATE CORTEX; POSTERIOR SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; BRAIN; HUMANS; INTENTION; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0347815196     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1168     Document Type: Article

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