1st Edition

Perception and Action: Recent Advances in Cognitive Neuropsychology A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

Edited By Jean Decety Copyright 1999
340 Pages
by Psychology Press

340 Pages
by Psychology Press

Perception and Action have long been considered as two separate information processes and have accordingly been investigated in relative isolation from one another. However, it is now acknowledged that perception and action are functionally related. This special issue presents original contributions from cognitive neuroscientists and cognitive neuropsychologists who address this area from... Read more
M. Jahanshahi, C.D. Frith, Willed Action and its Impairments. L.M. Parsons, P.T. Fox, The Neural Basis of Implicit Movements Used in Recognizing Hand Shape. L.J. Buxbaum, M.F. Schwartz, M.W. Montgomery, Ideational and Naturalistic Action. I.M. Smith, S.E. Bryson, Gesture Imitation in Autism I: Nonsymbolic Postures and Sequences. J. Grezes, N. Costes, J. Decety, Top Down Effect of the Strategy on the Perception of Human Biological Motion: A PET Investigation. I.M. Thornton, J. Pinto, M. Shiffrar, The Visual Perception of Human Locomotion. A.M. Barrett, R.L. Schwartz, A.L. Raymer, G.P. Crucian, L. Gonzalez Rothi, K.M. Heilman, Dyssynchronous Apraxia: Failure to Combine Simultaneous Preprogrammed Movements. C.L. Reed, I.M. Franks, Evidence for Movement Preprogramming and On-line Control in Differentially Impaired Patients with Parkinson's Disease. K.J. Murphy, David P. Carey, M.A. Goodale, The Perception of Spatial Relations in a Patient with Visual Form Agnosia.

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Jean Decety