Neural simulation of actions: Effector- versus action-specific motor maps within the human premotor and posterior parietal area?

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1212-1225

  Lorey, Britta ^a   Naumann, Tim ^a   Pilgramm, Sebastian ^a   Petermann, Carmen ^a   Bischoff, Matthias ^a,b   Zentgraf, Karen ^a,b   Stark, Rudolf ^a   Vaitl, Dieter ^a   Munzert, Jörn ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action mapping; Action observation; FMRI; Motor imagery; Motor simulation; Somatotopic mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGINATION; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GOALS; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896399524     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22246     Document Type: Article

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