What can we make of theories of embodiment and the role of the human mirror neuron system?

• Main Author: Juliana Baldo (auth)
• Other Authors: Fernando Gonzalez-Perilli (auth), Agustin Ibanez (auth), Analia Arevalo (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; action perception; Mirror activity; Embodied Simulation; Action Understanding; Imitation; Embodied Cognition; Empathy; embodiment; motor-language processing; Mirror Neurons
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In recent years, work surrounding theories of embodiment and the role of the putative mirror neuron system (MNS) in humans has gained considerable attention. If humans have developed a net-work of neurons that fire in response to other beings' actions, as has been shown in macaques, this system...