(Ebook) Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language 1st Edition by Maksim I Stamenov, Vittorio Gallese, John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN 9781588112156 1588112152

(Ebook) Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language 1st Edition by Maksim I Stamenov, Vittorio Gallese, John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN 9781588112156 1588112152

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ISBN 10: 1588112152
ISBN 13: 9781588112156
Author: Maksim I Stamenov, Vittorio Gallese, John Benjamins Publishing Company

The emergence of language, social intelligence, and tool development are what made homo sapiens sapiens differentiate itself from all other biological species in the world. The use of language and the management of social and instrumental skills imply an awareness of intention and the consideration that one faces another individual with an attitude analogical to that of one’s own. The metaphor of ‘mirror’ aptly comes to mind.Recent investigations have shown that the human ability to ‘mirror’ other’s actions originates in the brain at a much deeper level than phenomenal awareness. A new class of neurons has been discovered in the premotor area of the monkey brain: ‘mirror neurons’. Quite remarkably, they are tuned to fire to the enaction as well as observation of specific classes of behavior: fine manual actions and actions performed by mouth. They become activated independent of the agent, be it the self or a third person whose action is observed. The activation in mirror neurons is automatic and binds the observation and enaction of some behavior by the self or by the observed other. The peculiar first-to-third-person ‘intersubjectivity’ of the performance of mirror neurons and their surprising complementarity to the functioning of strategic communicative face-to-face (first-to-second person) interaction may shed new light on the functional architecture of conscious vs. unconscious mental processes and the relationship between behavioral and communicative action in monkeys, primates, and humans.
The present volume discusses the nature of mirror neurons as presented by the research team of Prof. Giacomo Rizzolatti (University of Parma), who originally discovered them, and the implications to our understanding of the evolution of brain, mind and communicative interaction in non-human primates and man

(Ebook) Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: Neural Mechanisms of Action Understanding

1. The Neural Correlates of Action Understanding in Non-human Primates
   Leonardo Fogassi and Vittorio Gallese

2. The Mirror System in Humans
   Giacomo Rizzolatti, Laila Craighero, and Luciano Fadiga

3. Is the Human Brain Unique?
   Gerhard Roth

4. The Co-evolution of Language and Working Memory Capacity in the Human Brain
   Oliver Gruber

5. Episodic Action Memory: Characterization of the Time Course and Neural Circuitry
   Ava J. Senkfor

Part II: Imitation, Joint Action, and Perception

1. The Role of Objects in Imitation
   Andreas Wohlschläger and Harold Bekkering

2. The Mirror System and Joint Action
   Günther Knoblich and Jerome Scott Jordan

3. Brain Activation to Passive Observation of Grasping Actions
   Francis McGlone, Matthew Howard, and Neil Roberts

4. Mirror Neurons and the Self Construct
   Kai Vogeley and Albert Newen

Part III: Communication, Synchronization, and Interaction

1. Behavioral Synchronization in Human Conversational Interaction
   Jennifer L. Rotondo and Steven M. Boker

2. Symmetry Guiding and Symmetry Breaking in Synchronized Movement
   Steven M. Boker and Jennifer L. Rotondo

Part IV: Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Language

1. On the Evolutionary Origin of Language
   Charles N. Li and Jean-Marie Hombert

2. Mirror Neurons, Vocal Imitation, and the Evolution of Particulate Speech
   Michael Studdert-Kennedy

3. Constitutive Features of Human Dialogic Interaction: Mirror Neurons and What They Tell Us About Human Abilities
   Edda Weigand

4. Some Features That Make Mirror Neurons and Human Language Faculty Unique
   Maxim I. Stamenov

Part V: Developmental and Cognitive Perspectives

1. Altercentric Perception by Infants and Adults in Dialogue: Ego's Virtual Participation in Alter's Complementary Act
   Stein Bråten

2. Visual Attention and Self-Grooming Behaviors Among Four-Month-Old Infants: Indirect Evidence Pointing to a Developmental Role for Mirror Neurons
   Samuel W. Anderson, Marina Koulomzin, Beatrice Beebe, and Joseph Jaffe

3. The Role of Mirror Neurons in the Ontogeny of Speech
   Marilyn May Vihman

4. Mirror Neurons’ Registration of Biological Notion: A Resource for Evolution of Communication and Cognitive/Linguistic Meaning
   Loraine McCune

Part VI: Modeling, Culture, and Learning

1. Looking for Neural Answers to Linguistic Questions
   Bernard H. Bichakjian

2. Mirror Neurons and Cultural Transmission
   India Morrison

3. Mirror Neurons and the Neural Basis for Learning by Imitation: Computational Modeling
   Aude Billard and Michael Arbib

4. Mirror Neurons and Feedback Learning
   Steve Womble and Stefan Wemter

5. A Connectionist Model Which Unifies the Behavioral and the Linguistic Processes: Results from Robot Learning Experiments
   Yuuya Sugita and Jun Tani

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