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The relevance of the discovery of mirror neurons in monkeys and of the mirror neuron system in humans to a neuroscientific account of primates’ social cognition and its evolution is discussed. It is proposed that mirror neurons and the functional mechanism they underpin, embodied simulation, can ground within a unitary neurophysiological explanatory framework important aspects of human social cognition...
Imitation and mirroring processes are necessary but not sufficient conditions for children to develop human sociality. Human sociality entails more than the equivalence and connectedness of perceptual experiences. It corresponds to the sense of a shared world made of shared values. It originates from complex ‘open’ systems of reciprocation and negotiation, not just imitation and mirroring processes...
The human ability to recognize the actions and gestures of others is fundamental to communication and social perception. Evidence suggests that this ability is supported by the mirror neuron system, the primary function of which is to mentally simulate a perceived action in the observer’s own motor system. Traditionally, the processing that occurs within this network is considered to be automatic...
Emotions permeate social and non-social cognition. However, our understanding of the underlying mechanisms remains elusive. One reason is because traditional amodal or symbolic accounts of cognition view emotional information as equivalent to any other information. However, recent theories of embodied cognition suggest new ways to understand the processing of emotionally significant information. They...
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