Neural activity involved in the perception of human and meaningful object motion

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1125-1128

  Virji Babul, Naznin ^a,d   Cheung, Teresa ^a   Weeks, Daniel ^a   Kerns, Kimberly ^b   Shiffrar, Maggie ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Down Syndrome Research Foundation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Magnetoencephalography; Object motion; Time course of brain activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34250858983     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32821c5470     Document Type: Article

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