Closely overlapping responses to tools and hands in left lateral occipitotemporal cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1443-1446

  Bracci, Stefania ^a,b   Cavina Pratesi, Cristiana ^c   Ietswaart, Magdalena ^b   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,d   Peelen, Marius V ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action perception; Functional connectivity; Ventral stream; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LEFT LATERAL OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TOOL USE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857249972     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00619.2011     Document Type: Article

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