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Putting the subjective back into intersubjective: The importance of person-specific, distributed, neural representations in perception-action mechanisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2008

Stephanie D. Preston
Stephanie D. Preston
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. prestos@umich.eduhttp://www.umich.edu/~prestos
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Abstract

The shared circuits model (SCM) relies on well-regarded theories of perception-action, mirror neurons, and forward models, but the functional/informational level of the model limits its ability to explain complex behavior such as true imitation. Data from our lab and others confirm the more general details of the model, accepted by most, but specify the neural mechanisms involved in perception-action processes.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 36 - 37
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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