Counting Is Easier while Experiencing a Congruent Motion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Lugli, Luisa ^a,b   Baroni, Giulia ^a   Anelli, Filomena ^a   Borghi, Anna M ^a,c   Nicoletti, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877763854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064500     Document Type: Article

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