Taking action : cognitive neuroscience perspectives on intentional acts / edited by Scott H. Johnson-Frey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson-Frey, Scott H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive neuroscience.

Intention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 413 p., [12] p. of plates ) ill. (some col.) ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent cognitive neuroscientific research that crosses traditional conceptual boundaries among perceptual, cognitive, and motor functions in an effort to understand intentional acts. Traditionally, neurologists, neuroscientists, and psychologists have viewed brain functions as grossly divisible into three separable components, each responsible for either perceptual, cognitive, or motor systems. The artificial boundaries of this simplification have impeded progress in understanding many phenomena, particularly intentional actions, which involve complex interactions among the three systems. This book presents a diverse range of work on action by cognitive neuroscientists who are thinking across the traditional boundaries. The topics discussed include catching moving targets, the use of tools, the acquisition of new actions, feedforward and feedback mechanisms, the flexible sequencing of individual movements, the coordination of multiple limbs, and the control of actions compromised by disease. The book also presents recent work on relatively unexplored yet fundamental issues such as how the brain formulates intentions to act and how it expresses ideas through manual gestures.

Contents:

Orientation and disorientation : illusory perception and the real world / A. David Milner and Richard T. Dyde

Ups and downs in the visual control of action / James A. Danckert and Melvyn A. Goodale

Mediate responses as direct evidence for intention : neuropsychology of not-to, not-now, and not-there tasks / Yves Rossetti and Laure Pisella

Understanding intentions through imitation / Marco Iacoboni

Simulation of action as a unifying concept for motor cognition / Marc Jeannerod

How the human brain represents manual gestures : effects of brain damage / Angela Sirigu [and others]

Cortical representations of human tool use / Scott H. Johnson-Frey

Representations and neural mechanisms of sequential movements / Richard B. Ivry and Laura L. Helmuth

Bimanual action representation : a window on human evolution / Elizabeth A. Franz

Feedback or feedforward control : end of a dichotomy / Michel Desmurget and Scott Grafton

Neuronal plasticity in the motor cortex of monkeys acquiring a new internal model / Camillo Padoa-Schioppa and Emilio Bizzi

Neural mechanisms of catching : transplanting moving target information into hand interception movement / Wolfgang Kruse [and others]

Movement and functional magnetic resonance imaging : applications in the clinical and scientific environment / M. Rotte.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A Bradford book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-27633-X

0-585-48264-0

OCLC:

53958642