A new way to quantify the fidelity of imitation: Preliminary results with gesture sequences

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 139-152

  Gold, Brian J ^a   Pomplun, Marc ^b   Rice, Nichola J ^a   Sekuler, Robert ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Imitation; Motion capture; Motor learning; Praxis; Sequence learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; APRAXIAS; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINGERS; GENERALIZATION, RESPONSE; GESTURES; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 42449154936     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1291-2     Document Type: Article

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