Prefrontal involvement in imitation learning of hand actions: Effects of practice and expertise

NeuroImage

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1371-1383

  Vogt, Stefan ^a,b   Buccino, Giovanni ^c   Wohlschläger, Afra M ^d   Canessa, Nicola ^e   Shah, N Jon ^f   Zilles, Karl ^f,g   Eickhoff, Simon B ^f   Freund, Hans Joachim ^f   Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^c   Fink, Gereon R ^f,h  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^g HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action observation; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Expertise; Imitation; Mirror neuron system; Motor learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSIC; NEURONS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34548567758     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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