'Goals' are not an integral component of imitation

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 423-435

  Leighton, Jane ^a   Bird, Geoffrey ^a,b   Heyes, Cecilia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASL; GOADI; Goal; Imitation; Pen and cups task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; GOALS; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; JUDGMENT; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76349114037     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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