Interaction between affordance and handedness recognition: a chronometric study

The visualization of tools and manipulable objects activates motor-related areas in the cortex, facilitating possible actions toward them. This pattern of activity may underlie the phenomenon of object affordance. Some cortical motor neurons are also covertly activated during the recognition of body...

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Main Authors: A.P. Lameira, A. Pereira, E. Conde, L.G. Gawryszewski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2015-04-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2015000400316&lng=en&tlng=en