Automatic versus voluntary motor imitation: Effect of visual context and stimulus velocity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Bisio, Ambra ^a,b   Stucchi, Natale ^c   Jacono, Marco ^a   Fadiga, Luciano ^a,d   Pozzo, Thierry ^a,e  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^e INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC MOTOR IMITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; KINEMATICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VOLUNTARY MOTOR IMITATION; AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION;

ADULT; AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 78149444544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013506     Document Type: Article

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