Is the observation of the human kinematics sufficient to activate automatic imitation of transitive actions?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 201-208

  Campione, Giovanna Cristina ^a   Gentilucci, Maurizio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action aim; Automatic imitation; Biological effector; Human kinematics; Transitive actions; Type of interaction

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC IMITATION; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT; OBSERVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051789621     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.07.025     Document Type: Article

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