Tempo Rubato: Animacy Speeds Up Time in the Brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Carrozzo, Mauro ^a,b   Moscatelli, Alessandro ^b   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^b,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; KINETICS; LANGUAGE; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; NERVE NET; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650813533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015638     Document Type: Article

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