Involvement of the superior temporal cortex in action execution and action observation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 27, 2014, Pages 8999-9011

  Kilintari, Marina ^a,b   Raos, Vassilis ^a,b   Savaki, Helen E ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Action execution; Action observation; Action representation; Superior temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ACTION EXECUTION; ACTION OBSERVATION; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDIAL SUPERIOR TEMPORAL AREA; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHESUS MONKEY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL POLYSENSORY AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORO PARIETO OCCIPITAL ASSOCIATION AREA; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ACTION EXECUTION; ACTION OBSERVATION; ACTION REPRESENTATION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GOALS; HAND STRENGTH; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84903650055     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0736-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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