One hand, two objects: Emergence of affordance in contexts

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 64-73

  Borghi, Anna M ^a,b   Flumini, Andrea ^a   Natraj, Nikhilesh ^c   Wheaton, Lewis A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Action goal; Affordances; Canonical and mirror neurons; Categorization; Function; Manipulation; Motor; Thematic relations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAND FUNCTION; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84861332502     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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