Dissociable substrates for body motion and physical experience in the human action observation network

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1383-1392

  Cross, Emily S ^a,b,e   Hamilton, Antonia F De C ^a   Kraemer, David J M ^b,c   Kelley, William M ^b   Grafton, Scott T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dance; Mirror neuron system; Motor learning; Premotor cortex; Simulation; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ACTION OBSERVATION NETWORK; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANCING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350439850     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06941.x     Document Type: Article

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