Early and late motor responses to action observation

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 711-719

  Barchiesi, Guido ^a   Cattaneo, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action observation; Action selection; Associative sequence learning; Mirror neurons; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual motor training

Indexed keywords

ACTION OBSERVATION; ACTION SELECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE SEQUENCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INNERVATION; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL MOTOR TRAINING; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTION OBSERVATION; ACTION SELECTION; ASSOCIATIVE SEQUENCE LEARNING; MIRROR NEURONS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL MOTOR TRAINING;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; OBSERVATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882623426     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss049     Document Type: Article

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