The role of action representations in visual object recognition

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 221-228

  Helbig, Hannah Barbara ^a   Graf, Markus ^a,c   Kiefer, Markus ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Action priming; Action representations; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33748853719     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0443-5     Document Type: Article

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