Goal representation in the infant brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 85, Issue , 2014, Pages 294-301

  Southgate, Victoria ^a   Begus, Katarina ^a   Lloyd Fox, Sarah ^a   di Gangi, Valentina ^b   Hamilton, Antonia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Functional near infrared spectroscopy; Goal attribution; Infants; Repetition suppression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION UNDERSTANDING; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GOAL ATTRIBUTION; INFANTS; REPETITION SUPPRESSION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GOALS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 84889654888     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.08.043     Document Type: Article

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