μ-Suppression during action observation and execution correlates with BOLD in dorsal Premotor, inferior parietal, and SI cortices

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 40, 2011, Pages 14243-14249

  Arnstein, Dan ^a   Cui, Fang ^a,b   Keysers, Christian ^a,b   Maurits, Natasha M ^a   Gazzola, Valeria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MU RHYTHM; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053654930     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0963-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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