The role of the visual and the motor system in action understanding. KU Leuven
Understanding others` actions is an important aspect of social behavior and communication. It has been proposed that the true basis of action understanding stems from a dedicated observation/execution matching system, the mirror neuron system, which maps the visual description of an observed motor act onto our own motor representation of the same motor act (Rizzolatti and Craighero, 2004). Although it has been almost 20 years since the initial ...