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Research from Bangor University Broadens Understanding of Science
Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, September 19th, 2011
2011 SEP 19 -- Researchers detail in "Surface-based information mapping reveals crossmodal vision-action representations in human parietal and occipitotemporal cortex," new data in Science. "Many lines of evidence point to a tight linkage between the perceptual and motoric representations of actions. Numerous demonstrations show how the visual perception of an action engages compatible activity in the observer's motor system," scientists in Bangor, United Kingdom report.
"This is seen for both intransitive actions (e.g., in the case of unconscious postural imitation) and transitive actions (e.g., grasping an object). Although the discovery of 'mirror...
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