Neural activation during imitation of movements presented from four different perspectives: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 503, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 100-104

  Watanabe, Rui ^a,b   Watanabe, Shu ^c   Kuruma, Hironobu ^c   Murakami, Yoshiyuki ^c   Seno, Atsushi ^c   Matsuda, Tadamitsu ^d  

^a Kiyose Rehabilitation Hospital   (Japan)

^b Graduate School of Human Health Science   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RYOTOKUJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FMRI; Imitation; Perspective; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FINGER; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INSULA; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THUMB; VIDEOTAPE;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052928354     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.08.016     Document Type: Article

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