Listening to action-related sentences activates fronto-parietal motor circuits

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 273-281

  Tettamanti, Marco ^a   Buccino, Giovanni ^b   Saccuman, Maria Cristina ^c   Gallese, Vittorio ^b   Danna, Massimo ^a   Scifo, Paola ^a   Fazio, Ferruccio ^a,d,e   Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^b   Cappa, Stefano F ^f   Perani, Daniela ^f  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^f VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; OBSERVATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECALL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 19944432816     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929053124965     Document Type: Article

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