The left inferior parietal lobe represents stored hand-postures for object use and action prediction

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Elk, Michiel van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action prediction; Action semantics; fMRI; Inferior parietal lobe; Objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899667964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00333     Document Type: Article

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