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The Magic Grasp: Motor Expertise in Deception (2011)
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Cavina-Pratesi, C., Kuhn, G., Ietswaart, M., & Milner, A. (2011). The Magic Grasp: Motor Expertise in Deception. PLoS ONE, 6(2), Article e16568. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016568

Background Most of us are poor at faking actions. Kinematic studies have shown that when pretending to pick up imagined objects (pantomimed actions), we move and shape our hands quite differently from when grasping real ones. These differences betwee... Read More about The Magic Grasp: Motor Expertise in Deception.