Predicting other people's action goals with low-level motor information

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2923-2925

  Falck Ytter, Terje ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Direct matching; Inferential reasoning; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

FORECASTING; GOALS; HUMANS; INTENTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES;

EID: 84861917533     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00783.2011     Document Type: Review

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