What is the role of motor simulation in action and object recognition? Evidence from apraxia

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 795-816

  Negri, Gioia A L ^a   Rumiati, Raffaella ^a   Zadini, Antonietta ^b   Ukmar, Maja ^c   Mahon, Bradford ^d,e   Caramazza, Alfonso ^d,e  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action recognition; Apraxia; Embodied cognition; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

AGED; ANOMIA; APRAXIAS; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CONCEPT FORMATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37749016649     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290701707412     Document Type: Article

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