Simple movement imitation: Are kinematic features sufficient to map perceptions into actions?

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 360-368

  Noy, Lior ^a   Rumiati, Raffaella Ida ^b   Flash, Tamar ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Direct matching; Imitation; Mirror neuron system; Visuomotor priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59349113572     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.08.030     Document Type: Article

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