The neural correlates of planning and executing actual tool use

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 39, 2014, Pages 13183-13194

  Brandi, Marie Luise ^a,b,c   Wohlschläger, Afra ^a,c   Sorg, Christian ^a,c   Hermsdörfer, Joachim ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action execution; Action planning; fMRI; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ACTION EXECUTION; ACTION PLANNING; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; CAMERA; DORSAL ROOT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LATERALITY INDEX; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBJECT MANIPULATION; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE; VIDEORECORDING; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; INNERVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS;

EID: 84907286197     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0597-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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