Voluntary initiation of movement: multifunctional integration of subjective agency

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Grüneberg, Patrick ^a,b   Kadone, Hideki ^c   Suzuki, Kenji ^b  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

agency (psychology); assistive robotics; motion; multifunctionality; multimodality; neurorehabilitation; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963673297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00688     Document Type: Article

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