Brain regions involved in human movement perception: A quantitative voxel-based meta-analysis

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 431-454

  Grosbras, Marie Hélène ^a   Beaton, Susan ^a   Eickhoff, Simon B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action observation; FMRI; Human motion; Inferior frontal gyrus; Mirror neurons; Premotor cortex; Social cognition; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; FACE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; HAND; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052302308     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21222     Document Type: Article

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