Placing actions in context: Motor facilitation following observation of identical and non-identical manual acts

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 743-751

  Ocampo, Brenda ^a   Kritikos, Ada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action execution; Action observation; Kinematics; Mirror neuron system

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACILITATION; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERCEPTION; POWER GRIP; PRECISION GRIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; HAND; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951091889     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-2089-6     Document Type: Article

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