Modeling the Development of Goal-Specificity in Mirror Neurons

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 525-538

  Thill, Serge ^a   Svensson, Henrik ^a   Ziemke, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Action understanding hypothesis; Computational model; Mirror neurons; Neural activation patterns; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

ACTION-UNDERSTANDING HYPOTHESIS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; MIRROR NEURONS; NEURAL ACTIVATION PATTERNS; SELF ORGANIZING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONFORMAL MAPPING;

MIRRORS;

EID: 82555165932     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-011-9108-1     Document Type: Article

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