Covert imitation of transitive actions activates effector-independent motor representations affecting "motor" knowledge of target-object properties

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 343-352

  Campione, Giovanna Cristina ^a   Gentilucci, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affordance; Hand kinematics; Imitation; Mirror system; Size estimation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUTH; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THUMB; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74449093963     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.10.018     Document Type: Article

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