Imitation components in the human brain: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1622-1630

  Mengotti, Paola ^a   Corradi Dell'Acqua, Corrado ^b   Rumiati, Raffaella Ida ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Finger movement; Neuroimaging; Parietal operculum; Spatial coding; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL OPERCULUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 83055181199     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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