Object presence modulates activity within the somatosensory component of the action observation network

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 668-679

  Turella, Luca ^a,d   Tubaldi, Federico ^a   Erb, Michael ^b   Grodd, Wolfgang ^c   Castiello, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

action observation; fmri; grasping; mirror neurons; motor system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIRROR NEURONS; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857217538     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr140     Document Type: Article

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