Mapping the flow of information within the putative mirror neuron system during gesture observation

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-44

  Schippers, Marleen B ^a   Keysers, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dynamic control system; Granger causality; Putative mirror neuron system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREDICTION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTATIVE MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; GESTURES; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79956206684     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.018     Document Type: Article

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