[HTML][HTML] Theories and computational models of affordance and mirror systems: an integrative review

S Thill, D Caligiore, AM Borghi, T Ziemke… - Neuroscience & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Neuroscientific and psychological data suggest a close link between affordance and mirror
systems in the brain. However, we still lack a full understanding of both the individual …

[HTML][HTML] Semantic embodiment, disembodiment or misembodiment? In search of meaning in modules and neuron circuits

F Pulvermüller - Brain and language, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract “Embodied” proposals claim that the meaning of at least some words, concepts and
constructions is grounded in knowledge about actions and objects. An alternative …

[图书][B] How the brain got language: The mirror system hypothesis

MA Arbib - 2012 - books.google.com
Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the
brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror …

A neural theory of speech acquisition and production

FH Guenther, T Vladusich - Journal of neurolinguistics, 2012 - Elsevier
This article describes a computational model, called DIVA, that provides a quantitative
framework for understanding the roles of various brain regions involved in speech …

Mirror neurons: functions, mechanisms and models

E Oztop, M Kawato, MA Arbib - Neuroscience letters, 2013 - Elsevier
Mirror neurons for manipulation fire both when the animal manipulates an object in a
specific way and when it sees another animal (or the experimenter) perform an action that is …

Affordance processing in segregated parieto-frontal dorsal stream sub-pathways

K Sakreida, I Effnert, S Thill, MM Menz, D Jirak… - Neuroscience & …, 2016 - Elsevier
The concept of affordances indicates “action possibilities” as characterized by object
properties the environment provides to interacting organisms. Affordances relate to both …

Early action and gesture “vocabulary” and its relation with word comprehension and production

MC Caselli, P Rinaldi, S Stefanini… - Child …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Data from 492 Italian infants (8–18 months) were collected with the parental questionnaire
MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories to describe early actions and …

From mirror neurons to complex imitation in the evolution of language and tool use

MA Arbib - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The mirror system hypothesis suggests that evolution expanded a basic mirror system for
grasping, in concert with other brain regions first to support simple imitation (shared with the …

From grasp to language: Embodied concepts and the challenge of abstraction

MA Arbib - Journal of Physiology-Paris, 2008 - Elsevier
The discovery of mirror neurons in the macaque monkey and the discovery of a homologous
“mirror system for grasping” in Broca's area in the human brain has revived the gestural …

Neural and computational mechanisms of action processing: interaction between visual and motor representations

MA Giese, G Rizzolatti - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Action recognition has received enormous interest in the field of neuroscience over the last
two decades. In spite of this interest, the knowledge in terms of fundamental neural …