Neural circuits underlying imitation learning of hand actions: An event-related fMRI study

Neuron

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 323-334

  Buccino, Giovanni ^a   Vogt, Stefan ^b   Ritzl, Afra ^c   Fink, Gereon R ^c,d   Zilles, Karl ^c,e   Freund, Hans Joachim ^c   Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET;

EID: 4444236365     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(04)00181-3     Document Type: Article

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