Dissociating modality-specific and supramodal neural systems for action understanding

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3575-3583

  Spunt, Robert P ^a   Lieberman, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION UNDERSTANDING; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULUS;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857803922     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5715-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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