Does visual perception of object afford action? Evidence from a neuroimaging study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 212-222

  Grezes J ^a   Decety, J ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Action; Affordance; Intention; Object; Perception; PET

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036028002     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(01)00089-6     Document Type: Article

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