Differential neural responses to humans vs. robots: An event-related potential study

Brain Research

Volumn 1165, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 105-115

  Hirai, Masahiro ^a   Hiraki, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Action observation; Biological motion; Event related potential; Human and robotic appearance; Inversion effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; ROBOTICS; WALKING;

EID: 34547657253     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.05.078     Document Type: Article

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