The motor system resonates to the distal goal of observed actions: Testing the inverse pliers paradigm in an ecological setting

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-49

  Cattaneo, Luigi ^a   Maule, Francesca ^a   Barchiesi, Guido ^a   Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action observation; Grasping; Imitation; Mirror neurons; Tools; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; GOALS; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885954046     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3664-4     Document Type: Article

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