Movement observation affects sensorimotor memory when lifting a familiar object

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 638-640

  Uçar, Ece ^a   Wenderoth, Nicole ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN; LETTER; MEMORY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); OBSERVATION; PINCH STRENGTH; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

EID: 84858443744     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.08.011     Document Type: Letter

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