Grasping in the dark activates early visual cortices

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 949-963

  Kilintari, Marina ^a,b   Raos, Vassilis ^a,b   Savaki, Helen E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

action in the dark; action observation; action simulation; reaching to grasp; visual cortex

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; DEOXYGLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DARK ADAPTATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; LIGHT; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL AREA V3; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; DARKNESS; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; MACACA MULATTA; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79952833295     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq175     Document Type: Article

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