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@article{citeulike:4057188, abstract = {Social life rests in large part on the capacity to understand the intentions behind the behavior of others. What are the origins of this capacity? How is one to construe its development in ontogenesis? By assuming that action understanding can be explained only in terms of the ability to read the minds of others--that is, to represent mental states--the traditional view claims that a sharp discontinuity occurs in both phylogeny and ontogeny. Over the last few years this view has been challenged by a number of ethological and psychological studies, as well as by several neurophysiological findings. In particular, the functional properties of the mirror neuron system and its direct matching mechanism indicate that action understanding may be primarily based on the motor cognition that underpins one's own capacity to act. This article aims to elaborate and motivate the pivotal role of such motor cognition, providing a biologically plausible and theoretically unitary account for the phylogeny and ontogeny of action understanding and also its impairment, as in the case of autistic spectrum disorder. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved).}, author = {Gallese, V. and Rochat, M. and Cossu, G. and Sinigaglia, C.}, citeulike-article-id = {4057188}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0014436}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19209994}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19209994}, doi = {10.1037/a0014436}, issn = {0012-1649}, journal = {Developmental psychology}, keywords = {action, cognition, mirror, motor, neuron, ontogeny, phylogeny}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {103--113}, posted-at = {2009-02-16 01:23:11}, priority = {2}, title = {Motor cognition and its role in the phylogeny and ontogeny of action understanding.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0014436}, volume = {45}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4057188 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4057188 N2 - Social life rests in large part on the capacity to understand the intentions behind the behavior of others. What are the origins of this capacity? How is one to construe its development in ontogenesis? By assuming that action understanding can be explained only in terms of the ability to read the minds of others--that is, to represent mental states--the traditional view claims that a sharp discontinuity occurs in both phylogeny and ontogeny. Over the last few years this view has been challenged by a number of ethological and psychological studies, as well as by several neurophysiological findings. In particular, the functional properties of the mirror neuron system and its direct matching mechanism indicate that action understanding may be primarily based on the motor cognition that underpins one's own capacity to act. This article aims to elaborate and motivate the pivotal role of such motor cognition, providing a biologically plausible and theoretically unitary account for the phylogeny and ontogeny of action understanding and also its impairment, as in the case of autistic spectrum disorder. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved). IS - 1 JF - Developmental psychology SN - 0012-1649 EP - 113 TI - Motor cognition and its role in the phylogeny and ontogeny of action understanding. VL - 45 SP - 103 KW - action KW - cognition KW - mirror KW - motor KW - neuron KW - ontogeny KW - phylogeny AU - Gallese, V AU - Rochat, M AU - Cossu, G AU - Sinigaglia, C PY - 2009/01// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0014436 ER -