When neurons do not mirror the agent's intentions: Sex differences in neural coding of goal-directed actions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1454-1463

  Proverbio, Alice Mado ^a   Riva, Federica ^a   Zani, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action comprehension; Empathy; ERPs; Mirror neurons; N400; Sex differences; Social cognition; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GOALS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX FACTORS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949773306     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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