AUTHOR=Ansuini Caterina , Cavallo Andrea , Campus Claudio , Quarona Davide , Koul Atesh , Becchio Cristina TITLE=Are We Real When We Fake? Attunement to Object Weight in Natural and Pantomimed Grasping Movements JOURNAL=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience VOLUME=10 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00471 DOI=10.3389/fnhum.2016.00471 ISSN=1662-5161 ABSTRACT=
Behavioral and neuropsychological studies suggest that real actions and pantomimed actions tap, at least in part, different neural systems. Inspired by studies showing weight-attunement in real grasps, here we asked whether (and to what extent) kinematics of pantomimed reach-to-grasp movement can reveal the weight of the pretended target. To address this question, we instructed participants (