Categorization and sensorimotor interaction with objects

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-43

  Iachini, Tina ^a   Borghi, Anna M ^b   Senese, Vincenzo Paolo ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action; Categorization; Mirror neurons; Motor affordances; Multimodality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISION;

ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 43649108863     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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