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

• मुख्य लेखक: Juliana Baldo (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Fernando Gonzalez-Perilli (auth), Agustin Ibanez (auth), Analia Arevalo (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• श्रृंखला: Frontiers Research Topics
• विषय: Neurosciences; action perception; Mirror activity; Embodied Simulation; Action Understanding; Imitation; Embodied Cognition; Empathy; embodiment; motor-language processing; Mirror Neurons
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...