When action observation facilitates visual perception: Activation in visuo-motor areas contributes to object recognition

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2907-2918

  Sim, Eun Jin ^a   Helbig, Hannah B ^b   Graf, Markus ^b,c   Kiefer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic causal modeling; Event related potentials; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Object recognition; Visuo motor system

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUSAL MODELING; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84973426954     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu087     Document Type: Article

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