Learning of spatial relationships between observed and imitated actions allows invariant inverse computation in the frontal mirror neuron system

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4183-4186

  Oh, Hyuk ^a   Gentili, Rodolphe J ^b   Reggia, James A ^a   Contreras Vidal, Jose L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; ACTION EXECUTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; INTERNAL MODELS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; INVERSE COMPUTATION; INVERSE MODELS; LEARNING BY IMITATION; MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTICES; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TRANSFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

MIRRORS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; IMITATION; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS;

EID: 84863604103     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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