Nonmotor aspects of action concepts

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2863-2879

  Leshinskaya, Anna ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; THEORY OF MIND; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGINATION; MOTIVATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931030749     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00679     Document Type: Article

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