Greg Hickock, “Beyond Mirror Neurons” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Object Hand Movement Interaction - Is There a System That's Tuned to Copying?
There's got to be some sort of a sensory motor system that's right forming that matron. Whether there are individual cells tuned to seeing this and doing this a that's impossible to know. But what we do know from the work that ritilati and others have done on object hand movement interaction, is that when you were able to coordinate the perception of object shape with hand grasping, you would always find cells that responded to that shape. So just by inference, to me, i didn't need to see the evidence. That just made sense that such a system would exist.
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