Dealing with individual variability: When telling what is real depends on telling who is acting

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 498, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-9

  Daprati, Elena ^a,b   Wriessnegger, Selina ^b,c   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Action observation; Biological motion; Extra striate body area; Hand gestures; Self; Social interactions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958097138     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.04.032     Document Type: Article

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