Neuroscience: Parietal lobe: From action organization to intention understanding

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5722, 2005, Pages 662-667

  Fogassi, Leonardo ^a   Ferrari, Pier Francesco ^a   Gesierich, Benno ^a   Rozzi, Stefano ^a   Chersi, Fabian ^a   Rizzolotti, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE (IPL); MONKEYS; MOTOR ACT; NEURONS;

NEUROLOGY;

NEUROLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; EATING; MONKEY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOOD; HAPLORHINI; MICROELECTRODE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOOD; GOALS; HAPLORHINI; INTENTION; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 17844392350     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1106138     Document Type: Article

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