Emotional valence modulates putative mirror neuron activity

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 508, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 56-59

  Enticott, Peter G ^a   Harrison, Bronwyn A ^a   Arnold, Sara L ^a   Nibaldi, Kaitlyn ^a   Segrave, Rebecca A ^a   Fitzgibbon, Bernadette M ^a   Kennedy, Hayley A ^a   Lau, Kristal ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a  

^a Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electromyogram; Emotion; Mirror neurons; Primary motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIRROR NEURONS; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855959563     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.12.018     Document Type: Article

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