Sensory and Motor Brain Areas Supporting Biological Motion Perception: Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Studies

People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Saygin, Ayse Pinar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action perception system (aps); Biological motion; Brain lesioned patients; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri); Mirror neuron system; Parietal frontal connections; Premotor cortex; Psychophysics; Superior temporal sulcus (sts)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0021     Document Type: Chapter

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