کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
142119 162981 2008 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Action comprehension in non-human primates: motor simulation or inferential reasoning?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
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Action comprehension in non-human primates: motor simulation or inferential reasoning?
چکیده انگلیسی

Some argue that action comprehension is intimately connected with the observer’s own motor capacities, whereas others argue that action comprehension depends on non-motor inferential mechanisms. We address this debate by reviewing comparative studies that license four conclusions: monkeys and apes extract the meaning of an action (i) by going beyond the surface properties of actions, attributing goals and intentions to the agent; (ii) by using environmental information to infer when actions are rational; (iii) by making predictions about an agent’s goal, and the most probable action to obtain the goal given environmental constraints; (iv) in situations in which they are physiologically incapable of producing the actions. Motor theories are, thus, insufficient to account for primate action comprehension in the absence of inferential mechanisms.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: - Volume 12, Issue 12, December 2008, Pages 461–465
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