Motor abstraction: A neuroscientific account of how action goals and intentions are mapped and understood

Psychological Research

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 486-498

  Gallese, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; FRONTAL LOBE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INFANT; KINESTHESIA; MACACA; MOTIVATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; COMPREHENSION; FRONTAL LOBE; GOALS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INFANT; INTENTION; KINESTHESIS; MACACA; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE NET; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PHYLOGENY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 67449141665     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-009-0232-4     Document Type: Article

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