Title Motor cognition : what actions tell the self / Marc Jeannerod

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) : illustrations Series Oxford psychology series ; no. 42 Oxford psychology series ; no. 42. Contents Representations for actions -- Imagined actions as a prototypical form of action representation -- Consciousness of self-produced actions and intentions -- The sense of agency and the self-other distinction -- How do we perceive and understand the actions of others -- The simulation hypothesis of motor cognition Summary "Motor Cognition' describes the field of motor cognition - one to which the author's contribution has been seminal. The book examines how the motor actions we perform and watch others perform play a pivotal role in the construction of the 'self"--Our ability to acknowledge and recognise our own identity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-198) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Brain -- Physiology Motor ability. Cognition. Human information processing. Cognition -- physiology Motor Skills Cognition Mental Processes Motor Activity Psychomotor Performance -- physiology cognition. MEDICAL -- Neuroscience. PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology. Human information processing Brain -- Physiology Cognition Motor ability Psychomotorik Selbst Hirnfunktion Kognition Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191546884 0191546887 9780191720994 0191720992 0198569645 9780198569640 0198569653 9780198569657

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