Unfamiliar Walking Movements Are Detected Early in the Visual Stream: An fMRI Study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2022-2034

  Maffei, Vincenzo ^a   Giusti, Maria Assunta ^a,b   Macaluso, Emiliano ^a   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^a,b   Viviani, Paolo ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

action observation; biological motion; fMRI; predictive coding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VISION; WALKING; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCULOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PATHWAYS; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938634603     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu008     Document Type: Article

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