Neural mechanisms for the recognition of biological movements.

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The visual recognition of complex movements and actions is crucial for the survival of many species. It is important not only for communication and recognition at a distance, but also for the learning of complex motor actions by imitation. Movement recognition has been studied in psychophysical, neurophysiological and imaging experiments, and several cortical areas involved in it have been identified. We use a neurophysiologically plausible and quantitative model as a tool for organizing and making sense of the experimental data, despite their growing size and complexity. We review the main experimental findings and discuss possible neural mechanisms, and show that a learning-based, feedforward model provides a neurophysiologically plausible and consistent summary of many key experimental results.

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Author/s: Giese, Martin A (MA); Poggio, Tomaso (T);

Affiliation: Laboratory for Action Representation and Learning, Department of Cognitive Neurology, University Clinic Tübingen, Spemannstrasse 34, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany. martin.giese(-atsign-)tuebingen.mpg.de

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Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Review

Journal: Nature reviews. Neuroscience (Nat Rev Neurosci), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Mar; vol 4 (issue 3) : pp 179-92

Dates: Created 2003/03/03; Completed 2003/03/26; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12612631, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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