Knowing beans: Human mirror mechanisms revealed through motor adaptation

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Glenberg, Arthur M ^a,b   Lopez Mobilia, Gabriel ^a   McBeath, Michael ^a   Toma, Michael ^a   Sato, Marc ^c   Cattaneo, Luigi ^d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action recognition; Mirror mechanisms; Motor adaptation; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEAN; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CELL; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MIROR MECHANISM; MOTOR ADAPTATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79953001606     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00206     Document Type: Article

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