The mirror neuron system and motor dexterity: What happens?

Neuroscience

Volumn 275, Issue , 2014, Pages 285-295

  Plata Bello, J ^a,b   Modrono C ^a   Marcano, F ^a   Gonzalez Mora J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Action observation; Mirror neurons; Motor dexterity; Precision grasping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND DEXTERITY; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECISION GRASPING PANTOMIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURDUE PEGBOARD TEST; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIRROR NEURONS; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84903898258     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.06.010     Document Type: Article

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