From visuo-motor interactions to imitation learning: Behavioural and brain imaging studies

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 497-517

  Vogt, Stefan ^a   Thomaschke, Roland ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMITATION; LEARNING STYLE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SKILL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; ANIMAL; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249724323     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410600946779     Document Type: Review

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