Neural mechanisms of understanding rational actions: Middle temporal gyrus activation by contextual violation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 318-329

  Jastorff, Jan ^a   Clavagnier, Simon ^a   Gergely, György ^b   Orban, Guy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

extrastriate cortex; functional imaging; human; MTG; vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATIONALIZATION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651518108     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq098     Document Type: Article

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