The dynamics of sensorimotor cortical oscillations during the observation of hand movements: an EEG study
Pietro Avanzini,Maddalena Fabbri-Destro,Riccardo Dalla Volta,Elena Daprati,Giacomo Rizzolatti,Giacomo Rizzolatti,Gaetano Cantalupo +6 more
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The authors' data show that the observation of motor acts determines a modulation of cortical rhythm analogous to that occurring during motor act execution, and provides strong evidence for the presence in humans of a mechanism (mirror mechanism) mapping action observation on action execution motor programs.Abstract:
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The observation of action done by others determines a desynchronization of the rhythms recorded from cortical central regions. Here, we examined whether the observation of different types of hand movements (target directed, non-target directed, cyclic and non-cyclic) elicits different EEG cortical temporal patterns.read more
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