Left hemisphere motor facilitation in response to manual action sounds

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2609-2612

  Aziz Zadeh, Lisa ^a,b   Iacoboni, Marco ^a,c   Zaidel, Eran ^b,c   Wilson, Stephen ^a,b   Mazziotta, John ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action coding; Language evolution; Mirror neurons; Motor corticospinal excitability; Sounds; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SOUND;

EID: 2442426342     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-816X.2004.03348.x     Document Type: Article

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