The neural correlates of velocity processing during the observation of a biological effector in the parietal and premotor cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 425-436

  Di Dio, Cinzia ^a   Di Cesare, Giuseppe ^a   Higuchi, Satomi ^c,d,e   Roberts, Neil ^f   Vogt, Stefan ^c,d   Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Dorsal parietal and superior frontal areas; Mirror neurons; Reaching movements; Velocity processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DORSAL PARIETAL AREA; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT VELOCITY PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR PARIETAL AREA;

ADULT; BIOMIMETICS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84867481069     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.026     Document Type: Article

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