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Motor-visual neurons and action recognition in social interactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2014

Stephan de la Rosa  and
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Stephan de la Rosa
Affiliation:
Department of Perception for Biological Cybernetics, Cognition, and Action, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. [email protected]://www.kyb.mpg.de/[email protected]://www.kyb.mpg.de/~hhb
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Affiliation:
Department of Perception for Biological Cybernetics, Cognition, and Action, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. [email protected]://www.kyb.mpg.de/[email protected]://www.kyb.mpg.de/~hhb Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Korea
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Abstract

Cook et al. suggest that motor-visual neurons originate from associative learning. This suggestion has interesting implications for the processing of socially relevant visual information in social interactions. Here, we discuss two aspects of the associative learning account that seem to have particular relevance for visual recognition of social information in social interactions – namely, context-specific and contingency based learning.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 2014 , pp. 197 - 198
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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