Motor Cognition

What Actions Tell the Self
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-856964-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jeannerod, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie Psychologische Diagnostik, Testpsychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Experimentelle Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Representations for actions

- 1.1: Definitions

- 1.2: Neural models of action representations

- 1.3: Functional models of action representation

- 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 cognition and social cognition

- 6.3: Motor simulation and language understanding

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Jeannerod, born in Lyon, France.

Doctor in Medicine (1965), Thesis in Lyon, on sleep mechanisms. Post-doc at the Brain Research Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles (California). Professor in Physiology at the University Claude Bernard, Lyon. Runs his own lab on sensory-motor coordination, until 1997. 1997-2005: Founder and Director of the Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon. In this Institute, works on the mechanisms of the generation of actions

Member, Académie des Sciences.