Listening to humans walking together activates the social brain circuitry

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 401-409

  Saarela, Miiamaaria V ^a   Hari, Riitta ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; WALKING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; QUESTIONNAIRES; REST; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56349156160     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910801897633     Document Type: Article

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