Understanding actors and object-goals in the human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1142-1147

  Ramsey, Richard ^a   Hamilton, Antonia F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action observation; Actor identity; Agency; fMRI; Mirror neuron system; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GOAL DIRECTED ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249154554     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.124     Document Type: Article

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