From Action to Cognition /

• Corporate Author: European Science Foundation (sponsoring body.)
• Other Authors: Hofsten, Claes von (Editor), Rosander, K. (Kerstin) (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007.
• Edition: First edition.
• Series: Progress in brain research ; v. 164.
• Subjects: Brain > Growth > Congresses.; Cognitive neuroscience > Congresses.; Motivation (Psychology) > Congresses.; Cognition > Congresses.; Cerveau > Croissance.; Neurosciences cognitives.; Motivation (Psychologie); Cognition.; SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.; Brain > Growth.; Cognitive neuroscience.; Motivation (Psychology); Cognitiewetenschap.; Hersenfuncties.; Kind; Kognition; Kognitionswissenschaft; Gehirn; Entwicklung; Brain > growth & development.; Motivation.; Mirror Neurons.; Theory of Mind.; Maratea di Aquafredda <2005>; Electronic books.; Conference papers and proceedings.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 450 pages) : illustrations (some color).
• Format: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780080553436; 0080553435; 0444530169; 9780444530165
• ISSN: 0079-6123 ;

Extensive neurophysiological and neuropsychological evidence show that perception, action, and cognition are closely related in the brain and develop in parallel to one another. Thus, perception, cognition, and social functioning are all anchored in the actions of the child. Actions reflect the motives, the problems to be solved, and the constraints and possibilities of the child?s body and sensory-motor system. The developing brain accumulates experiences which it translates into knowledge used in planning future actions. Such knowledge is available because events are governed by rules and re.