Ventral premotor to primary motor cortical interactions during noxious and naturalistic action observation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1802-1806

  Lago, Angel ^a   Koch, Giacomo ^b   Cheeran, Binith ^c   Márquez, Gonzalo ^a   Sánchez, Jose Andrés ^a   Ezquerro, Milagros ^a   Giraldez, Manolo ^a   Fernández del Olmo, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action observation; Mirror system; Reaching; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Ventral premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PAIN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77952543584     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.02.030     Document Type: Article

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