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SUBMITTER: O'Shea H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5313484 | biostudies-other | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Frontiers in human neuroscience 20170217
Motor simulation theory (MST; Jeannerod, 2001) purports to explain how various action-related cognitive states relate to actual motor execution. Specifically, it proposes that motor imagery (MI; imagining an action without executing the movements involved) shares certain mental representations and mechanisms with action execution, and hence, activates similar neural pathways to those elicited during the latter process. Furthermore, MST postulates that MI works by rehearsing neural motor systems ...[more]