Differential activation of the lateral premotor cortex during action observation

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Pilgramm, Sebastian ^a   Lorey, Britta ^a   Stark, Rudolf ^a   Munzert, Jörn ^a   Vaitl, Dieter ^a   Zentgraf, Karen ^a,b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; DANCING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DANCING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 77955076047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-11-89     Document Type: Article

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