Action observation and execution: What is shared?

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 421-433

  de Vignemont, F ^a   Haggard, P ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SHARED REPRESENTATION OF ACTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION;

HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTENTION; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; OBSERVATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 56349135951     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910802045109     Document Type: Article

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