Action generation and action perception in imitation: An instance of the ideomotor principle

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1431, 2003, Pages 501-515

  Wohlschläger, Andreas ^a   Gattis, Merideth ^b   Bekkering, Harold ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action generation; Action perception; Ideomotor principle; Imitation

Indexed keywords

HUMAN BEHAVIOR; IMITATION; PERCEPTION;

EID: 0242585354     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1257     Document Type: Article

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