The affordance-matching hypothesis: How objects guide action understanding and prediction

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Bach, Patric ^a   Nicholson, Toby ^a   Hudsons, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action prediction; Action understanding; Affordances; Object function; Object manipulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNOWLEDGE; LOCOMOTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIRROR NEURON; MOTIVATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84900536291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00254     Document Type: Article

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