Motor Cognition
What Actions Tell the Self
1st Edition
Published on 29. June 2006
220 pages
978-0-19-154688-4 (ISBN)
Description
'Motor Cognition' describes the field of motor cognition - one to which the author's contribution has been seminal. The book examines how the motor actions we perform and watch others perform play a pivotal role in the construction of the 'self' - our ability to acknowledge and recognise our own identity.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Representations for Actions
- 1.1 Definitions
- 1.2 Neural models of action representations
- 1.3 Functional models of action representations
- 2 Imagined Actions as a Prototypical Form of Action Representation
- 2.1 The kinematic content of motor images
- 2.2 Dynamic changes in physiological parameters during motor imagery
- 2.3 The functional anatomy of motor images
- 2.4 The consequences of the embodiment of action representations
- 3 Consciousness of Self-produced Actions and Intentions
- 3.1 Consciousness of actions
- 3.2 Consciousness of intentions
- 4 The Sense of Agency and the Self-Other Distinction
- 4.1 Sense of ownership and sense of agency in self-identification
- 4.2 The nature of the mechanism for self-identification
- 4.3 The problem of the self-other distinction
- 4.4 Failure of self-recognition/attribution mechanisms in pathological states
- 5 How Do We Perceive and Understand the Actions of Others
- 5.1 The perception of faces and bodies
- 5.2 The perception of biological motion
- 5.3 The understanding of others' actions
- 5.4 Functional implications of the mirror system in motor cognition
- 5.5 The role of the mirror system in action imitation
- 6 The Simulation Hypothesis of Motor Cognition
- 6.1 Motor simulation. A hypothesis for explaining action representations
- 6.2 Motor simulation and social cognition
- 6.3 Motor simulation and language understanding
- Concluding Remarks
- References
- Author Index
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- Subject Index
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