Action mirroring and action understanding: an alternative account

Gergely Csibra

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Action mirroring and action understanding: an alternative account

Gergely Csibra

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This chapter examines the relation between mirroring and understanding of actions. It challenges the notion that action mirroring is generated by direct matching and serves the function of action understanding in terms of their goals. It argues that action mirroring is generated by action reconstruction via top-down emulation from action interpretation produced outside the motor system and that it does not follow but rather anticipates ongoing actions and enables action coordination with others.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sensorimotor Foundations of Higher Cognition
Editors	Patrick Haggard
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	435-459
ISBN (Print)	9780199231447
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231447.003.0020
State	Published - Jul 1993

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Action mirroring and action understanding: an alternative account

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