Typical action perception and interpretation without motor simulation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 86-91

  Vannuscorps, Gilles ^a,b,c   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Action perception; Mirror neurons; Motor simulation

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SIMULATION; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; ADULT; BONE DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BONE DISEASES, DEVELOPMENTAL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT;

EID: 84953279726     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516978112     Document Type: Article

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