Imitation: Is cognitive neuroscience solving the correspondence problem?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 489-495

  Brass, Marcel ^a   Heyes, Cecilia ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROLOGY;

IMITATION PROCESS; MOTOR ACTIVATION; NEUROLOGICAL MECHANISM; SPECIALIST THEORIES;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ASSOCIATION; BODY MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMITATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW; SOCIAL LEARNING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOLITION;

EID: 25144481870     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2005.08.007     Document Type: Review

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