Relationship between activity in human primary motor cortex during action observation and the mirror neuron system

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Kilner, James M ^a   Marchant, Jennifer L ^a   Frith, Chris D ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS;

EID: 62849093376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004925     Document Type: Article

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