Motor cognition: A new paradigm to study self-other interactions

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 259-263

  Jackson, Philip L ^a   Decety, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; IMITATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOLITION;

EID: 1842684446     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2004.01.020     Document Type: Review

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