Premotor cortex is sensitive to auditory-visual congruence for biological motion

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 575-587

  Wuerger, Sophie M ^a   Parkes, Laura ^b   Lewis, Penelope A ^b   Crocker Buque, Alex ^c   Rutschmann, Roland ^d   Meyer, Georg F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; KNEE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR CORTEX; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856339060     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00173     Document Type: Article

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