The human execution/observation matching system investigated with a complex everyday task: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 508, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 73-77

  Koehler, Saskia ^a,b   Egetemeir, Johanna ^c   Stenneken, Prisca ^c   Koch, Stefan P ^d   Pauli, Paul ^a   Fallgatter, Andreas J ^e   Herrmann, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action execution; Action observation; Complex everyday task; Egocentric allocentric viewpoint; FNIRS; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXECUTION OBSERVATION MATCHING SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856085548     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.12.021     Document Type: Article

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