A dynamic model for action understanding and goal-directed imitation

Brain Research

Volumn 1083, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 174-188

  Erlhagen, Wolfram ^a   Mukovskiy, Albert ^a   Bicho, Estela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Action sequence; Grasping; Hebbian learning; Learning by imitation; Mirror circuit; Placing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; GOAL ATTAINMENT; LEARNING; MODEL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARM; BRAIN; COGNITION; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646002980     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.01.114     Document Type: Article

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