The Brain's intention to imitate: The neurobiology of intentional versus automatic imitation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2338-2351

  Bien, Nina ^a   Roebroeck, Alard ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^a   Sack, Alexander T ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FMRI; Imitation; Mirror neurons; Response inhibition; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTENTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349448516     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn251     Document Type: Article

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