Cooperation or competition? Discriminating between social intentions by observing prehensile movements

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 211, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 547-556

  Manera, Valeria ^a,b   Becchio, Cristina ^a   Cavallo, Andrea ^a   Sartori, Luisa ^c   Castiello, Umberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Competition; Cooperation; Discrimination of intention; Intention; Kinematics; Point light; Prehensile movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; COMPETITION; COOPERATION; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958231690     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2649-4     Document Type: Article

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