PSY30400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Premotor Cortex, Mirror Neuron, Motor Cortex

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Chapter 9: Knowledge
Embodied Approach:
o states that our knowledge of concepts is based on reactivation of sensory and motor
processes that occur when we interact with objects
o Example:
when a person uses a hammer, sensory areas are activated in response to
haer’s size, shape, ad olor ad otor areas are atiated that ioled
in carrying out actions involved in using hammer
this information is REACTIVATED when we see or use hammer again
Mirror Neurons:
neurons in premotor cortex that reveals impressive interaction
between perception and action
Discovered when recording neurons while monkeys carried out
actions
o osered that soe euros i oke’s preotor orte
fired both when it grasped food and when it observed
experimenter grasping
o Presence of mirror neurons
euro’s respose to athig is siilar to respose
for acting
o However, most mirror neurons are specialized to response to
only one type of action
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