Do you know what I mean? Brain oscillations and the understanding of communicative intentions

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Brunetti, Marcella ^a   Zappasodi, Filippo ^a   Marzetti, Laura ^a   Perrucci, Mauro Gianni ^a   Cirillo, Simona ^a   Romani, Gian Luca ^a   Pizzella, Vittorio ^a   Aureli, Tiziana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beta rhythm; Declarative pointing; Gamma rhythm; Social cognition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; RIGHT POSTERIOR SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; RIGHT TEMPORO PARIETAL JUNCTION; SOCIAL COGNITION; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84893573301     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00036     Document Type: Article

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