Crossmodal and action-specific: Neuroimaging the human mirror neuron system

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 311-318

  Oosterhof, Nikolaas N ^a,b,c   Tipper, Steven P ^d,e   Downing, Paul E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action representations; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Human mirror neuron system; Mirror neurons; Multivariate pattern analysis; Repetition suppression

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIRRORS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NEURONS;

ACTION REPRESENTATIONS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIRROR NEURONS; MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE PATTERN ANALYSIS; REPETITION SUPPRESSION;

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING;

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM; MIRROR NEURON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE PATTERN ANALYSIS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CYTOLOGY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMITATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MIRROR NEURONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84879783261     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.04.012     Document Type: Review

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