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July 2003
6 x 9, 421 pp., 75 illus.
$60.00/£44.95 (CLOTH)
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0-262-10097-5
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978-0-262-10097-7

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Taking Action
Cognitive Neuroscience Perspectives on Intentional Acts
Edited by Scott H. Johnson-Frey

Prefacevii
I.Perception and Action1
1Orientation and Disorientation: Illusory Perception and the Real World
A. David Milner and Richard T. Dyde
3
2Ups and Downs in the Visual Control of Action
James A. Danckert and Melvyn A. Goodale
29
II.Intention and Simulation65
3Mediate Responses as Direct Evidence for Intention: Neuropsychology of Not-To, Not-Now, and Not-There Tasks
Yves Rossetti and Laure Pisella
67
4Understanding Intentions through Imitation107
5Simulation of Action as a Unifying Concept for Motor Cognition
Mark Jeannerod
139
III.Gesture and Tool Use165
6How the Human Brain Represents Manual Gestures: Effects of Brain Damage
Angela Sirigu, Elena Daprati, Laurel J. Buxbaum, Pascal Giraux and Pascale Pradat-Diehl
167
7Cortical Representations of Human Tool Use
Scott H. Johnson-Frey
185
IV.Sequencing, Coordiantion, and Control219
8Representations and Neural Mechanisms of Sequential Movements
Richard B. Ivry and Laura L. Helmuth
221
9Bimanual Action Representation: A Window on Human Evolution
Elizabeth A. Franz
259
10Feedback of Feedforward Control: End of a Dichotomy
Michel Desmurget and Scott Grafton
289
V.Learning and Movement339
11Neuronal Plasticity in the Motor Cortex of Monkeys Acquiring a New Internal Model
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa and Emilio Bizzi
341
12Neural Mechanisms of Catching: Translating Moving Target Information into Hand Interception Movement
Wolfgang Kruse, Nicholas L. Port, Daeyeol Lee and Apostolos P. Georgopoulos
361
13Movement and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Applications in the Clinical and Scientific Environment
M. Rotte
377
Contributors409
Index411
 
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