Neuronal encoding of human kinematic invariants during action observation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1647-1655

  Casile, Antonino ^a   Dayan, Eran ^b   Caggiano, Vittorio ^a   Hendler, Talma ^c,d   Flash, Tamar ^b   Giese, Martin A ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

action observation; biological motion; functional magnetic resonance imaging; kinematic invariants

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTION; NERVE CELL; OBSERVATION; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

EID: 77955948566     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp229     Document Type: Article

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