title: Visual Neuroscience: Seeing Causality with the Motor System?
abstract: Understanding how humans perceive cause and effect in visual events has long intrigued philosophers and scientists. A new study in primates reveals the neural correlates of perceived causality at the single-cell level, but in an unexpected place - the motor system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Philippstr. 13 Haus 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: martin.rolfs@hu-berlin.de.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rolfs
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D059167:Mirror Neurons; D009044:Motor Cortex; D009488:Neurosciences; D014796:Visual Perception