Playing charades in the fMRI: Are mirror and/or mentalizing areas involved in gestural communication?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Schippers, Marleen B ^a   Gazzola, Valeria ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^b   Keysers, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RECREATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS;

EID: 69849101643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006801     Document Type: Article

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