Bridging the Theories of Affordances and Limb Apraxia

• Main Author: Ferdinand Binkofski (auth)
• Other Authors: Antonello Pellicano (auth), Anna M. Borghi (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; affordances; Handle-to-hand; Attention; Language and affordances; Stable/Variable affordances; Apraxias
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Affordances are meaningful relations between the features of observed objects and the observer's action systems with its proper abilities. The notion of affordance integrates perceptual, cognitive and motor functions, so that perceiving an object, conducting cognitive operations on it, and exec...