Human primary motor cortex is both activated and stabilized during observation of other person's phasic motor actions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1644, 2014, Pages

  Hari, Riitta ^a   Bourguignon, Mathieu ^a,b   Piitulainen, Harri ^a   Smeds, Eero ^a   De Tiège, Xavier ^b   Jousmäki, Veikko ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain rhythms; Imitation; Inhibition; Motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY;

EID: 84899626710     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0171     Document Type: Article

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