Grasping the difference: what apraxia can tell us about theories of imitation Reply to Goldenberg

is that patients build up cognitive representations of the gestures. Their inaccuracy shows up independently from the motor actions used for expressing their content. Brass and Heyes note that the old literature on neurological patients with apraxia is usually neglected but themselves neglect both old and new studies on apraxia. These studies cast severe doubts on the postulated superiority of sensory-motor (‘generalist’) over cognitive (‘specialist’) theories of imitation.