Higher-level motor processes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1191, Issue , 2010, Pages 219-241

  Rumiati, Raffaella Ida ^b   Papeo, Liuba ^a   Corradi Dell'Acqua, Corrado ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apraxia; Body representation; Dual route; Imitation; Tool use

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 77950196569     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05442.x     Document Type: Review

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