Being Moved by the Self and Others: Influence of Empathy on Self-Motion Perception

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lopez, Christophe ^a,b   Falconer, Caroline J ^a   Mast, Fred W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; SELF MOTION PERCEPTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY IMAGE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872248977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048293     Document Type: Article

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