Communicative hand gestures and object-directed hand movements activated the mirror neuron system

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 114-122

  Montgomery, Kimberly J ^a   Isenberg, Nancy ^a,b   Haxby, James V ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Jersey Neuroscience Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; fMRI; Mirror neurons; Non verbal communication; STS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GESTURES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 35748967127     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsm004     Document Type: Article

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