And Yet They Act Together: Interpersonal Perception Modulates Visuo-Motor Interference and Mutual Adjustments during a Joint-Grasping Task

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Sacheli, Lucia Maria ^a,b   Candidi, Matteo ^a,b   Pavone, Enea Francesco ^a,b   Tidoni, Emmanuele ^a,b   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KINEMATICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECISION GRIP; PREDICTION; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BIOMECHANICS; COMMUNICATION; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84870332569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050223     Document Type: Article

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