title: Action knowledge, visuomotor activation, and embodiment in the two action systems.
abstract: Scientific interest in the relationship between cognition and action has increased markedly in the past several years, fueled by the discovery of mirror neurons in monkey prefrontal and parietal cortex and by the emergence of a movement in cognitive psychology, termed the embodied cognition framework, which emphasizes the role of simulation in cognitive representations. Guided by a functional neuroanatomic model called the Two Action Systems account, which posits numerous points of differentiation between structure- and function-based actions, we focus on two of the major issues under recent scrutiny: the relationship between representations for action production and recognition, and the role of action in object representations. We suggest that mirror neurons in humans are not critical for full action understanding, and that only function-based (and not structure-based) action is a component of embodied object concepts.
authors.affiliation: Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA. lbuxbaum@einstein.edu
authors.forename: Laurel J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Buxbaum
authors.forename: Solène
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kalénine
mesh_terms: D001072:Apraxias / Q000503:physiopathology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*
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