Visual and linguistic cues to graspable objects

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 545-559

  Myachykov, Andriy ^a   Ellis, Rob ^b   Cangelosi, Angelo ^b   Fischer, Martin H ^c  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grasp affordances; Naming; Object categorization; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84883457047     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3616-z     Document Type: Article

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