کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
925072 921303 2007 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Methodological issues in measures of imitative reaction times
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
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Methodological issues in measures of imitative reaction times
چکیده انگلیسی

Ideomotor (IM) theory suggests that observing someone else perform an action activates an internal motor representation of that behaviour within the observer. Evidence supporting the case for an ideomotor theory of imitation has come from studies that show imitative responses to be faster than the same behavioural measures performed in response to spatial cues. In an attempt to replicate these findings, we manipulated the salience of the visual cue and found that we could reverse the advantage of the imitative cue over the spatial cue. We suggest that participants utilised a simple visuomotor mechanism to perform all aspects of this task, with performance being driven by the relative visual salience of the stimuli. Imitation is a more complex motor skill that would constitute an inefficient strategy for rapid performance.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Brain and Cognition - Volume 63, Issue 3, April 2007, Pages 304–308
نویسندگان
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