The role of the basal ganglia in action imitation: Neuropsychological evidence from Parkinson's disease patients

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 211-220

  Bonivento, Carolina ^a,b   Rumiati, Raffaella I ^d   Biasutti, Emanuele ^e   Humphreys, Glyn W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d SISSA   (Italy)

^e Istituto di Medicina Fisica e Riabilitazione   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Ideomotor apraxia; Imitation; Intransitive actions; Parkinson's disease; Transitive actions

Indexed keywords

AGED; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMITATION; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

AGED; BASAL GANGLIA; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84872292759     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3300-8     Document Type: Article

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