Mental simulation of action in the service of action perception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 46, 2007, Pages 12675-12683

  Raos, Vassilis ^b   Evangeliou, Mina N ^b   Savaki, Helen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Action observation; Action recognition; Mental simulation; Motor cortex; Premotor cortex; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAND GRIP; LEARNING; LIMB MOVEMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; RHESUS MONKEY; SIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FINGERS; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUCOSE; GYRUS CINGULI; HAND STRENGTH; IMAGINATION; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 36248949135     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2988-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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