Motor cognition: what actions tell the self
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Main Author: Jeannerod, Marc (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006
Series:Oxford psychology series no. 42
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-198) and indexes
Representations for actions -- Imagined actions as a prototypical form of action representation -- Consciousness of self-produced actions and intentions -- The sense of agency and the self-other distinction -- How do we perceive and understand the actions of others -- The simulation hypothesis of motor cognition
"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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 209 pages)
ISBN:0191546887
9780191546884
9780198569640
9780198569657

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