Action concepts in the brain: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1191-1205

  Watson, Christine E ^a,b   Cardillo, Eileen R ^b   Ianni, Geena R ^b   Chatterjee, Anjan ^b  

^a MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INSULA; LEFT HEMISPHERE; META ANALYSIS; MOTION; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; MALE; MEDLINE; MEMORY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTION PERCEPTION; OXYGEN; PUBMED; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84879905095     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00401     Document Type: Article

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