Motor-visual neurons and action recognition in social interactions.
Cook et al. suggest that motor-visual neurons originate from associative learning. This suggestion has interesting implications for the processing of socially relevant visual information in social interactions. Here, we discuss two aspects of the associative learning account that seem to have particular relevance for visual recognition of social information in social interactions - namely, context-specific and contingency based learning.
Department of Perception for Biological Cybernetics, Cognition, and Action, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. delarosa@tuebingen.mpg.de http://www.kyb.mpg.de/~delarosa heinrich.buelthoff@tuebingen.mpg.de http://www.kyb.mpg.de/~hhb.
Stephan
S
de la Rosa
Department of Perception for Biological Cybernetics, Cognition, and Action, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. delarosa@tuebingen.mpg.de http://www.kyb.mpg.de/~delarosa heinrich.buelthoff@tuebingen.mpg.de http://www.kyb.mpg.de/~hhb.
Heinrich H
HH
Bülthoff
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D059167:Mirror Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D012938:Social Perception