Seeing the world through another person's eyes: Simulating selective attention via action observation

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 212-218

  Frischen, Alexandra ^a   Loach, Daniel ^a   Tipper, Steven P ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action observation; Mirror neuron system; Negative priming; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149164809     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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