Motor mapping of implied actions during perception of emotional body language

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 70-76

  Borgomaneri, Sara ^a,b,c   Gazzola, Valeria ^c,d   Avenanti, Alessio ^a,b,e  

^a Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action simulation; Emotional Body; Implied motion; International Affective Picture system; Mirror Neurons; Motor evoked potentials; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; EMOTION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GESTURE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861230852     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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