دانلود کتاب Motor Cognition: What Actions Tell to the Self

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Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 5
Foreword......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Contents......Page 11
1.1.1 The prescriptive nature of action representations......Page 13
1.1.2 Action representations and intentions......Page 14
1.1.3 Conceptual and non-conceptual action......Page 16
1.2.1 The demise of the sensory-motor theory of action......Page 20
1.2.2 Central neural mechanisms for action representation......Page 22
1.2.3 Neuropsychological evidence for neural representations for action: apraxia......Page 24
1.3.1 Early conceptions of action regulation......Page 28
1.3.2 Disentangling self-produced versus externally produced changes in the world......Page 30
1.3.3 Action representations as internal forward models......Page 32
2 Imagined actions as a prototypical form of action representation......Page 35
2.1 The kinematic content of motor images......Page 36
2.1.2 The representation of programming rules......Page 37
2.1.3 The encoding of biomechanical constraints......Page 38
2.2 Dynamic changes in physiological parameters......Page 40
2.2.1 The encoding of simulated effort......Page 41
2.2.2 Changes in excitability of the motor pathways......Page 43
2.3.1 The premotor–parietal network during action representation and execution......Page 44
2.3.2 The controversy about the involvement of primary motor cortex in action representation......Page 45
2.3.2.1 Plastic changes in the motor cortex......Page 46
2.3.2.2 Cognitive functions of motor cortex......Page 47
2.3.3 The problem of motor inhibition during the representation of actions......Page 50
2.4.1 Mental training......Page 53
2.4.2 Coupling motor representations with neuroprosthetic devices......Page 55
3.1 Consciousness of actions......Page 57
3.1.1 Awareness of the goal of an automatic action......Page 58
3.1.2 Awareness of how an action is performed......Page 62
3.1.3 Factors that determine conscious access to actions......Page 65
3.1.4 Is consciousness of action an afferent or an efferent phenomenon?......Page 67
3.2 Consciousness of intentions......Page 70
3.2.1 Are we aware of our own motor intentions?......Page 71
3.2.2 The issue of volition and conscious will......Page 74
3.2.3 Neuroimagery of free will......Page 78
3.2.4 Disorders of volition......Page 79
4 The sense of agency and the self–other distinction......Page 83
4.1.1 The cues for self-identification......Page 84
4.1.2 The Nielsen paradigm for studying the recognition of self-generated actions......Page 87
4.1.3 Recent implementations of the Nielsen paradigm......Page 89
4.2.1 Experimental support for the Central Monitoring Theory......Page 94
4.2.2 Clinical support for the Central Monitoring Theory......Page 97
4.3.1 The concept of shared representations......Page 99
4.3.2 Perspective taking......Page 101
4.4 Failure of self-recognition/attribution mechanisms in pathological states......Page 103
4.4.1 Is there a failure of the action monitoring system in Schneiderian schizophrenic patients?......Page 104
4.4.2 A specific attribution deficit in schizophrenic patients......Page 106
4.4.3 The depth of misattribution in schizophrenic patients......Page 108
5.1.1 Face perception......Page 111
5.1.2 The perception of body parts......Page 113
5.2.1 Perceiving the distinctive features of biological movements......Page 115
5.3.1 How observed actions are represented......Page 118
5.3.2.1 The monkey premotor cortex and the discovery of mirror neurons......Page 121
5.3.2.2 Neuroimaging of the human mirror system......Page 124
5.3.2.3 Changes in activity in primary motor cortex during action observation......Page 126
5.4 Functional implications of the mirror system in motor cognition......Page 127
5.4.1 The dual processing of motor events......Page 128
5.4.2 Learning by observation......Page 130
5.4.3 The pathology of action understanding......Page 132
5.5 The role of the mirror system in action imitation......Page 133
5.5.1 Imitative mirroring versus true imitation......Page 134
5.5.2 The neural basis of imitation......Page 137
6 The simulation hypothesis of motor cognition......Page 141
6.1 Motor simulation: A hypothesis for explaining action representations......Page 142
6.1.1 Motor simulation as a rule-based process......Page 143
6.1.2 Motor simulation and the detection of intentions......Page 147
6.1.3 Simulation and action planning......Page 151
6.2 Motor simulation and social cognition......Page 155
6.2.1 The simulation of emotions......Page 156
6.2.2 Simulation and social communication......Page 159
6.3.1 Language as goal-directed action......Page 163
6.3.2 The functional anatomy of the language production–comprehension interface. The role of Broca’s area......Page 166
6.3.3 The role of Broca’s area in action representation......Page 171
Concluding remarks......Page 177
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Author Index......Page 211
Subject Index......Page 219