RUNNING HEAD : Attention and Automatic Imitation Attention Modulates the Specificity of Automatic Imitation to Human Actors Matthew
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Attention modulates the speciWcity of automatic imitation to human actors
The perception of actions performed by others activates one’s own motor system. Recent studies disagree as to whether this eVect is speciWc to actions performed by other humans, an issue complicated by diVerences in perceptual salience between human and non-human stimuli. We addressed this issue by examining the automatic imitation of actions stimulated by viewing a virtual, computergenerated, ...
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تاریخ انتشار 2016