Action observation can prime visual object recognition

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 200, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 251-258

  Helbig, Hannah Barbara ^a   Steinwender, Jasmin ^a   Graf, Markus ^b   Kiefer, Markus ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action observation; Action priming; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249098701     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1953-8     Document Type: Article

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