Behavioral speed contagion: Automatic modulation of movement timing by observation of body movements

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1514-1524

  Watanabe, Katsumi ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Imitation; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODULATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AUTOMATISM; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38649124025     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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