Robotic movement preferentially engages the action observation network

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2238-2254

  Cross, Emily S ^a,b   Liepelt, Roman ^a,c   De C Hamilton, Antonia F ^d   Parkinson, Jim ^a   Ramsey, Richard ^d   Stadler, Waltraud ^a   Prinz, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action observation network; Dance; Functional MRI; Parietal; Premotor; Robots

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANCING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DANCING; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROBOTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864943651     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21361     Document Type: Article

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