Are visual stimuli sufficient to evoke motor information?. Studies with hand primes

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 411, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-21

  Borghi, Anna M ^a   Bonfiglioli, Claudia ^b   Lugli, Luisa ^d   Ricciardelli, Paola ^c   Rubichi, Sandro ^d   Nicoletti, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action; Conceptual knowledge; Embodiment; Motor resonance; Visuomotor priming

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; EVOKED RESPONSE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750981840     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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