Weaving the fabric of social interaction: Articulating developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience in the domain of motor cognition From: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Decety, Jean; Sommerville, Jessica A | Copyright Psychonomic Society, Inc. Apr 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

In this article, we bring together recent findings from developmental science and cognitive neuroscience to argue that perception-action coupling constitutes the fundamental mechanism of motor cognition. A variety of empirical evidence suggests that observed and executed actions are coded in a common cognitive and neural framework, enabling individuals to construct shared representations of self and other actions. We review work to suggest that such shared representations support action antic...

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