Right hemisphere contributions to imitation tasks

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1843-1855

  Biermann Ruben, Katja ^a,e   Kessler, Klaus ^b   Jonas, Melanie ^c   Siebner, Hartwig Roman ^d   Bäumer, Tobias ^c   Münchau, Alexander ^c   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human; Imitation; Magnetoencephalography; Mirror neurone system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 41549135636     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06146.x     Document Type: Article

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