Observed, executed, and imagined action representations can be decoded from ventral and dorsal areas

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3144-3158

  Filimon, Flavia ^a,b   Rieth, Cory A ^c   Sereno, Martin I ^d   Cottrell, Garrison W ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action observation network; Human fMRI; Mirror neurons; MVPA; Reaching

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR INSULA; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; BROCA AREA; CENTRAL SULCUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MIRROR NEURON; MULTIVOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; OBSERVATION; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARIETAL GYRUS; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECENTRAL SULCUS; PRECUNEUS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; SYLVIAN FISSURE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGINATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

BRAIN MAPPING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; OBSERVATION; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84973433409     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu110     Document Type: Article

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