Modulation of premotor mirror neuron activity during observation of unpredictable grasping movements

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2193-2202

  Gangitano, Massimo ^a,b   Mottaghy, Felix M ^a,c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human; Premotor cortex; Reaching grasping movement; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visuomotor transformation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 4944222816     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03655.x     Document Type: Article

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