The human mirror neuron system and embodied representations

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 629, Issue , 2009, Pages 355-376

  Aziz Zadeh, Lisa ^a   Ivry, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE; MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HAPLORHINI; HISTOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPEECH;

ANIMALS; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 61949160775     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77064-2_18     Document Type: Article

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