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MODELING THE MIRROR SYSTEM IN ACTION OBSERVATION AND
EXECUTION
by
James Bonaiuto
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(NEUROSCIENCE)
August 2010
Copyright 2010 James Bonaiuto
Object Description
| Title | Modeling the mirror system in action observation and execution |
| Author | Bonaiuto, James J. |
| Author email | bonaiuto@usc.edu; bonaiuto@caltech.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Neuroscience |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-04-28 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-08-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Arbib, Michael |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Itti, Laurent Bradley, Nina Delgado, Roberto |
| Abstract | Both premotor and parietal cortex of the macaque brain contain mirror neurons each of which fires vigorously both when the monkey executes a certain limited set of actions and when the monkey observes some other perform a similar action. Turning to the human, we must rely on brain imaging rather than single-neuron recording. The goals of this thesis are to a) develop biologically plausible models of the mirror system and its interactions with other brain regions in grasp observation and execution, b) suggest a new role for the mirror system in self-observation and feedback-based learning, and c) present an extension of synthetic brain imaging that allows computational models to address monkey and human data. |
| Keyword | mirror system; motor control; action recognition; synthetic brain imaging; computational modeling; reinforcement learning; reaching and grasping |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3288 |
| Rights | Bonaiuto, James J. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Bonaiuto-3517 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Bonaiuto-3517.pdf |
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| Full text | MODELING THE MIRROR SYSTEM IN ACTION OBSERVATION AND EXECUTION by James Bonaiuto A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (NEUROSCIENCE) August 2010 Copyright 2010 James Bonaiuto |
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