Functional neuroanatomy of intuitive physical inference

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 34, 2016, Pages E5072-E5081

  Fischer, Jason ^a,b,c   Mikhael, John G ^a,b,d   Tenenbaum, Joshua B ^a,b   Kanwisher, Nancy ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Action planning; fMRI; Mental simulation; Physical scene understanding; Premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANNING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84983608529     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1610344113     Document Type: Article

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