Beyond Motor Scheme: A Supramodal Distributed Representation in the Action-Observation Network

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ricciardi, Emiliano ^a,b   Handjaras, Giacomo ^a   Bonino, Daniela ^a   Vecchi, Tomaso ^c,d   Fadiga, Luciano ^e,f   Pietrini, Pietro ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE TOSCANA GABRIELE MONASTERIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^f ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CLASSIFIER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE POTENTIAL; OBSERVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSORY EVALUATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874590963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058632     Document Type: Article

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