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The functional role of the parieto-frontal mirror circuit: interpretations and misinterpretations
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It is concluded that, although there are several mechanisms through which one can understand the behaviour of other individuals, the parieto-frontal mechanism is the only one that allows an individual to understand the action of others 'from the inside' and gives the observer a first-person grasp of the motor goals and intentions of other Individuals.
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Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions
1. The motor system 2. The acting brain 3. The space around us 4. Action understanding 5. Mirror neurons in humans 6. Imitation and language 7. Sharing emotions
What is so special about embodied simulation?
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Motor cognition and its role in the phylogeny and ontogeny of action understanding.
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The functional properties of the mirror neuron system and its direct matching mechanism indicate that action understanding may be primarily based on the motor cognition that underpins one's own capacity to act, providing a biologically plausible and theoretically unitary account for the phylogeny and ontogeny of action understanding and also its impairment, as in the case of autistic spectrum disorder.
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Where does an object trigger an action? An investigation about affordances in space
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The data suggest that the power of an object to automatically trigger an action is strictly linked to the effective possibility that an individual has to interact with it.
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Looking Ahead: Anticipatory Gaze and Motor Ability in Infancy
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Infants’ ability in performing precision grasping strongly predicted their ability in using the actor’s hand shape cues to differentially anticipate the goal of the observed action, even when age was partialled out.
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The mirror mechanism: a basic principle of brain function
The mirror mechanism is a basic brain mechanism that transforms sensory representations of others' behaviour into one's own motor or visceromotor representations concerning that behaviour. According…
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The bodily self as power for action
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Intention and motor representation in purposive action
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The solution is to recognise that the contents of intentions can be partially determined byThe contents of motor representations, which enables better understanding how intentions relate to actions.
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The space of affordances: A TMS study
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