Observing social gestures: An fMRI study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-198

  Knutson, Kristine M ^a   McClellan, Erin M ^a,b   Grafman, Jordan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Gestures; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FASCIST SALUTE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MEMORY; MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SHAME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUSALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FRONTAL LOBE; GESTURES; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 45449089254     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1352-6     Document Type: Article

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