Between-brain connectivity during imitation measured by fNIRS

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 212-222

  Holper, Lisa ^a,b   Scholkmann, Felix ^a   Wolf, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Functional and effective connectivity; Granger causality; Imitation; Premotor cortex; Two person neuroscience; Wavelet transform coherence (WTC); Wireless functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HEMODYNAMICS; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORM COHERENCE ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864400447     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.028     Document Type: Article

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