The role of inferior frontal and parietal areas in differentiating meaningful and meaningless object-directed actions

Brain Research

Volumn 1315, Issue , 2010, Pages 63-74

  Newman Norlund, Roger ^a   van Schie, Hein T ^b   van Hoek, Marline E C ^c   Cuijpers, Raymond H ^c   Bekkering, Harold ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action observation; FMRI; Goal directed; Mirror neuron system; Object directed action

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FOOT; FRONTAL LOBE; GOALS; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

PRIMATES;

EID: 75349111690     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.11.065     Document Type: Article

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