The role of observers' gaze Behaviour when watching object manipulation tasks: Predicting and evaluating the consequences of action

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1628, 2013, Pages

  Randall Flanagan, J ^a,b   Rotman, Gerben ^b   Reichelt, Andreas F ^b   Johansson, Roland S ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Action observation; Gaze behaviour; Object manipulation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EYE; MOVEMENT; PREDICTION; VISUALIZATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTICIPATION; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; ACTION-OBSERVATION; ARTICLE; GAZE BEHAVIOUR; OBJECT MANIPULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

ACTION-OBSERVATION; GAZE BEHAVIOUR; OBJECT MANIPULATION;

EID: 84883883418     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0063     Document Type: Article

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