When Pinocchio acts like a human, a wooden hand becomes embodied. Action co-representation for non-biological agents

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1373-1377

  Müller, Barbara C N ^a   Brass, Marcel ^b   Kühn, Simone ^b   Tsai, Chia Chin ^c   Nieuwboer, Wieteke ^a   Dijksterhuis, Ap ^a   van Baaren, Rick B ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action co representation; Action perception link; Agency; Joint action; Task sharing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT SIMON TASK; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OBJECT RELATION; SIMULATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953842424     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.01.022     Document Type: Article

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