Competing mechanisms for mapping action-related categorical knowledge and observed actions

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2832-2841

  Candidi, Matteo ^a,b   Vicario, Carmelo Mario ^a,b   Abreu, Ana Maria ^a,b,c   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

action simulation; grounded cognition; motor evoked potentials; motor expertise; semantic knowledge; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION KINETICS; KNOWLEDGE; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TENNIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ARM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955748521     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq033     Document Type: Article

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