Transcranial magnetic stimulation studies of the human mirror neuron system

International Congress Series

Volumn 1232, Issue C, 2002, Pages 889-894

  Maeda, Fumiko ^a   Mazziotta, John ^a   Iacoboni, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action observation; Action observation execution matching system; Cortical excitability; Mirror neuron system; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010841294     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5131(01)00729-4     Document Type: Article

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