Neuropsychological evidence for a strategic control of multiple routes in imitation

Brain

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1111-1126

  Tessari, Alessia ^a,b   Canessa, Nicola ^a   Ukmar, Maja ^a   Rumiati, Raffaella I ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angular gyrus; Hippocampus; Ideomotor apraxia; Inferior parietal cortex; Mirror neurons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; IMAGING; IMITATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VALIDATION PROCESS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MAPPING; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GESTURE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; APRAXIA, IDEOMOTOR; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PUTAMEN; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 34249745610     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm003     Document Type: Article

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