Events and Actions as Dynamically Molded Spatiotemporal Objects: A Critique of the Motor Theory of Biological Motion Perception

Understanding Events: From Perception to Action

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bingham, Geoffrey P ^a   Wickelgren, Emily A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological motion perception; Ecological approach; Event perception; Motor commands; Motor theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054773881     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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