The anticipatory and task-driven nature of visual perception

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The effect of context and reason on the neural correlates of intentions

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“Cuts in Action”: A High-Density EEG Study Investigating the Neural Correlates of Different Editing Techniques in Film

In spite of their striking differences with real-life perception, films are perceived and understood without effort. Cognitive film theory attributes this to the system of continuity editing, a system of editing guidelines outlining the effect of different cuts and edits on spectators. A major principle in this framework is the 180° rule, a rule recommendation that, to avoid spectators’ attention to the editing, two edited shots of the same event or action should not be filmed from angles differing in a way that expectations of spatial continuity are strongly violated. In the present study, we used high-density EEG to explore the neural underpinnings of this rule. In particular, our analysis shows that cuts and edits in general elicit early ERP component indicating the registration of syntactic violations as known from language, music, and action processing. However, continuity edits and cuts-across the line differ from each other regarding later components likely to be indicating the differences in spatial remapping as well as in the degree of conscious awareness of one’s own perception. Interestingly, a time–frequency analysis of the occipital alpha rhythm did not support the hypothesis that such differences in processing routes are mainly linked to visual attention. On the contrary, our study found specific modulations of the central mu rhythm ERD as an indicator of sensorimotor activity, suggesting that sensorimotor networks might play an important role. We think that these findings shed new light on current discussions about the role of attention and embodied perception in film perception and should be considered when explaining spectators’ different experience of different kinds of cuts

Does the temporal cortex make us human?: A review of structural and functional diversity of the primate temporal lobe

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When do we stop calling them mirror neurons?

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Waarom we hersenen hebben

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Representaties in cognitieve neurowetenschap [Representations in cognitive neuroscience]

Item does not contain fulltextExplanations in terms of representations are ubiquitous in cognitive neuroscience. In this paper I will show that the question of who is using the representation is of crucial importance, but not often explicitly answered. Two possible users, the scientist and the cognitive system are theoretically strictly distinct, but the distinction is in practice often blurred. It is tempting to jump from 'representations to the scientist' to 'representations to the system'. This step, however, is unwarranted. I will show that representations to the scientist are not in themselves problematic, and can even be useful, but can lead to wrong conclusions. The problems with representations for the system are more fundamental.13 p

Representing action and intention

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No need to match: a comment on Bach, Nicholson and Hudson's "Affordance-Matching Hypothesis"

Mirror neurons and canonical neurons are two classes of visuomotor neurons that are activated by different visual stim-uli (Rizzolatti and Kalaska, 2012). Mirror neurons respond to a biological effec-tor interacting with an object (Gallese et al., 1996), suggesting their role in action recognition, while canonical neu-rons respond to the presentation of a gras-pable object (Murata et al., 1997), and are considered crucial in visuomotor transfor-mation for grasping (Jeannerod, 1995). In their interesting and thought-provoking “affordance-matching hypothe-sis ” Bach et al. (2014) argue that both type

Nowhere and Everywhere: The causal origin of voluntary action

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