Deriving motor primitives through action segmentation

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue JAN, 2011, Pages

  Hemeren, Paul E ^a   Thill, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Action recognition; Action representation; Biological motion; Event segmentation; Mirror neurons; Motor cognition; Motor primitives; Point light displays

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555172189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00243     Document Type: Article

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