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Action simulation in the human brain: Twelve questions
Laura BarcaHaris DindoMatteo CandidiGiovanni Pezzulosubject
forward modelNeural substrateInternal modelContext (language use)050105 experimental psychology03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineMotor cognitionaction understandingmotor control0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesaction simulationGeneral PsychologyCognitive scienceMirror neuron system intentiona understanding human-robot interactioninternal modelbusiness.industry05 social sciencesMotor controlRoboticsinternal model; motor control; action simulation; action understanding; forward modelAction (philosophy)Embodied cognitionPsychology (miscellaneous)Artificial intelligencePsychologybusiness030217 neurology & neurosurgerydescription
Although the idea of action simulation is nowadays popular in cognitive science, neuroscience and robotics, many aspects of the simulative processes remain unclear from empirical, computational, and neural perspectives. In the first part of the article, we provide a critical review and assessment of action simulation theories advanced so far in the wider literature of embodied and motor cognition. We focus our analysis on twelve key questions, and discuss them in the context of human and (occasionally) primate studies. In the second part of the article, we describe an integrative neuro-computational account of action simulation, which links the neural substrate (as revealed in neuroimaging studies of action simulation) to the components of a computational architecture that includes internal modeling, action monitoring and inhibition mechanisms. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-12-01 | New Ideas in Psychology |