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SUMMARY:The role of the motor system in action perception - Dr James Kilne
 r\, Senior Lecturer in Human Motor Neurosciences\, Institute of Neurology\
 , University College London	
DTSTART:20140214T163000Z
DTEND:20140214T180000Z
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Successful human social interactions depend upon the transmiss
 ion of verbal and non-verbal signals from one individual to another. Non-v
 erbal social communication is realized through our ability to read and und
 erstand other people's actions. It has been proposed that employing the sa
 me motor programs we use to execute an action when observing the same acti
 on underlies this action understanding. The most well known example of thi
 s are mirror neurons. Ever since their discovery\, it has been proposed th
 at mirror-neurons\, and motor system activity during action observation mo
 re generally\, underlie our ability to ‘understand’ actions. However\,
  despite decades of research there is still much debate about this propose
 d role of the motor-system in action perception. I will argue that many of
  the differences in scientific opinion regarding mirror neuron function ca
 n be resolved when action perception is framed within a predictive coding 
 framework and present data from experiments that have tested this framewor
 k.   \n\n\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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