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Motor Cognition Marc Jeannerod (, Emeritus Professor, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)

Motor Cognition By Marc Jeannerod (, Emeritus Professor, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)

Motor Cognition by Marc Jeannerod (, Emeritus Professor, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)

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Motor Cognition: What actions tell the self by Marc Jeannerod (, Emeritus Professor, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)

'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.

Motor Cognition Reviews

This book is a tour de force covering encompassing neuropsychology, neurophysiology, philosophy, neuoimaging, comparative neurobiology and clinical studies to support a thought provoking perspective on motor functioning. I would recommend this book to those interested in the study of neural production of movements ... * BMA Medical Book Competition 2007 *

About Marc Jeannerod (, Emeritus Professor, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)

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, Academie des Sciences.

Table of Contents

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

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NPB9780198569640
9780198569640
0198569645
Motor Cognition: What actions tell the self by Marc Jeannerod (, Emeritus Professor, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)
Marc Jeannerod (, Emeritus Professor, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)
Oxford Psychology Series
New
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2006-06-29
220
Winner of Commended in the Neurology category - BMA Medical Book Awards 2007.
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