Dissociable Cortical Processing of Recognizable and Non-recognizable Biological Movement: Analysing Gamma MEG Activity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-188

  Pavlova, Marina ^a   Lutzenberger, Werner ^a   Sokolov, Alexander ^b   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Coherence and meaning; Gamma band activity; Magnetoencephalography; Time course and topography of brain activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN CORTEX; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TOPOGRAPHY; VISION; WALKING;

EID: 0942279691     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhg117     Document Type: Article

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