Motor Cognition: What Actions Tell to the Self

ISBN-13: 9780198569657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str.

Marc Jeannerod

Opis

This book is the first to describe the new field of "Motor Cognition"--one to which the author's contribution has been seminal. It examines how the motor actions we perform and watch others perform play a pivotal role in the construction of the "self"--our ability to acknowledge and recognize our own identity.

Recenzje

...this accumulation of findings and ideas by a foremost researcher in the field would undoubtedly be of benefit to postgraduates and academics of the subject.

O autorze

Marc Jeannerod, born in Lyon, France. Doctor in Medicine (1965), Thesis in Lyon, on sleep mechanisms. Post-doc at the Brain Research Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles (California). Professor in Physiology at the University Claude Bernard, Lyon. Runs his own lab on sensory-motor coordination, until 1997. 1997-2005: Founder and Director of the Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon. In this Institute, works on the mechanisms of the generation of actions Member, Académie des Sciences.