Sight and sound of actions share a common neural network

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1754-1764

  Giusti, M A ^a,b   Bozzacchi, C ^a,b   Pizzamiglio, L ^a,c   Di Russo, F ^b,c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ERPs; Human; Mirror system; Multimodal; Repetition suppression

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78349245522     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07432.x     Document Type: Article

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