Hebbian learning and predictive mirror neurons for actions, sensations and emotions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1644, 2014, Pages

  Keysers, Christian ^a,b   Gazzola, Valeria ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active inference; Hebbian learning; Mind reading; Mirror neurons; Projection; Vicarious activations

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCE; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTICITY; SENSOR;

EID: 84899638353     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0175     Document Type: Article

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