Abstract:Through actions we explore the world around us, we express ourselves, achieve goals and interact with others. We are thinking about actions, planning, executing, imitating, observing, and understanding them. In other words, our life is filled with motor cognition. Yet our knowledge of the brain processes underlying these tasks is limited.Based on extensive literature we know that action observation and production share common neural mechanisms and a common neural network. Throughout the studies in this thesis,… Show more
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