Mirror neurons, language, and embodied cognition

Neural Networks

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-22

  Perlovsky, Leonid I ^a,b   Ilin, Roman ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dynamic logic; Embodiment; Emotions; Joint emergence; Language; Mirror neurons; Neural modeling fields

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DYNAMIC LOGIC; EMBODIMENT; EMOTIONS; LANGUAGE; MIRROR NEURONS; NEURAL MODELING FIELDS;

NEURONS; SEMANTICS;

MIRRORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIRROR NEURON; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SEMANTICS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; MIRROR NEURONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SEMANTICS;

EID: 84875889848     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: 18792782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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