Investigating Action Understanding: Inferential Processes versus Action Simulation

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 2117-2121

  Brass, Marcel ^a,b   Schmitt, Ruth M ^b,c   Spengler, Stephanie ^b   Gergely, György ^d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE;

EID: 37449005858     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.057     Document Type: Article

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