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SUBMITTER: Ewen JB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4742527 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ewen Joshua B JB Pillai Ajay S AS McAuliffe Danielle D Lakshmanan Balaji M BM Ament Katarina K Hallett Mark M Crone Nathan E NE Mostofsky Stewart H SH
Frontiers in human neuroscience 20160205
Our primary goal was to develop and validate a task that could provide evidence about how humans learn praxis gestures, such as those involving the use of tools. To that end, we created a video-based task in which subjects view a model performing novel, meaningless one-handed actions with kinematics similar to praxis gestures. Subjects then imitated the movements with their right hand. Trials were repeated six times to examine practice effects. EEG was recorded during the task. As a control, sub ...[more]