Action observation and acquired motor skills: An fMRI study with expert dancers

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1243-1249

  Calvo Merino, B ^a,b   Glaser, D E ^c   Grezes J ^d   Passingham, R E ^e,f   Haggard, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Expertise; Intraparietal; Mirror neurons; Motor repertoire; Premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANCING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; DANCING; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 20444436592     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi007     Document Type: Article

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