Age-independent activation in areas of the mirror neuron system during action observation and action imagery. A fMRI study

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 737-747

  Nedelko, Violetta ^a   Hassa, Thomas ^a   Hamzei, Farsin ^b   Weiller, Cornelius ^b   Binkofski, Ferdinand ^c   Schoenfeld, Mircea Ariel ^a,d,f   Tüscher, Oliver ^b   Dettmers, Christian ^e  

^a Kliniken Schmieder Allensbach   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Kliniken Schmieder Konstanz   (Germany)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

action imagery; action observation; age dependent changes; fMRI; mirror neuron system; object related actions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650278755     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2010-0542     Document Type: Article

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