Lateralization of motor excitability during observation of bimanual signs

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3173-3177

  Möttönen, Riikka ^a,b   Farmer, Harry ^a   Watkins, Kate E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action observation; Communication; Mirror neurons; Sign language; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGN LANGUAGE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGN LANGUAGE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955268016     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.06.033     Document Type: Article

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