Download or read book Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System written by Michael A. Arbib and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, internationally recognised experts from child development, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, primatology and robotics discuss the role of the mirror neuron system for the recognition of hand actions and the evolutionary basis for the brain mechanisms that support language.