Simulation during observation of human actions - Theories, empirical studies, applications

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 827-835

  Zentgraf, Karen ^a,b   Munzert, Jörn ^b   Bischoff, Matthias ^b   Newman Norlund, Roger D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action observation; Action reconstruction; Direct matching; Mirror neurons; Predictive coding

Indexed keywords

ATHLETE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79954543575     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.01.007     Document Type: Review

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