Viewpoint (in)dependence of action representations: An MVPA study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 975-989

  Oosterhof, Nikolaas N ^a   Tipper, Steven P ^a   Downing, Paul E ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 84857519545     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00195     Document Type: Article

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