Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Apr;37(2):195-6. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13002239.
In this commentary, we propose an extension of the associative approach of mirror neurons, namely, ideomotor theory. Ideomotor theory assumes that actions are controlled by anticipatory representations of their sensory consequences. As we outline below, this extension is necessary to clarify a number of empirical observations that are difficult to explain from a purely associative perspective.
在这篇评论中，我们提出了镜像神经元联想方法的扩展，即动念理论。动念理论假设，动作是由对其感觉后果的预期表征来控制的。正如我们在下面概述的那样，这种扩展是必要的，以澄清一些从纯粹联想角度难以解释的经验观察。
