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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"mirror neurons"”.
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Mirror Neurons are Modulated by Reward Expectation and Grip Force in the Sensorimotor Cortices (S1, M1, PMd, PMv)
Mirror Neurons (MN) respond similarly when primates make, or observe, grasping movements. Recent work indicates that reward expectation influences M1 during manual, observational, and Brain Machine Interface (BMI) reaching movements. Previous work showed MN are modulated by subjective value. Here …
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Quintessence of Dust: Cognitive Neuroscience and an Actor's Process
… also considers our relative understanding of mirror neurons and specifically their function in relation to intersubjectivity and their use for an actor’s creation and conveyance of character in rehearsal and performance. It examines Stanislavsky’s notion of emotional memory and imagination. …
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Empathy in the social & musical interactions of a community youth chorus: an instrumental case-study
… also have discovered the importance of mirror neurons in rhythmic synchronicity and musical expression across members of an ensemble. However, little research has been presented on how the specific medium of choral music can potentially be a fertile ground for empathy. This instrumental …
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The Impact of Early Comprehensive Intervention on the Mirror Neuron System in Autism Spectrum Disorders
The mirror neuron system (MNS) has attracted significant interest within the scientific and lay communities. The study of mirror neurons has a relatively short but rich history. The MNS has been implicated in a series of cognitive functions including action recognition, imitation, empathy, and …
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Effects of sensorimotor learning on the human mirror neuron system
The discovery, in the monkey, of “mirror” neurons, which fire in response both to the performance and to the observation of specific actions, has prompted extensive research into their properties, and into the possible functions of a putative mirror neuron system in humans. Little is known, …
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Investigating the effects of neuromodulatory training on autistic traits: a multi-methods psychophysiological study.
… a multi method approach to the study of ASD, mirror neurons and neurofeedback was taken. This thesis is made up of three main experiments: 1) A descriptive study of the resting state electroencephalography (EEG) across the spectrum of autistic traits in neurotypical individuals, 2) A …
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Reforming corporate fraud regulation in the UK: a model of manifest liability.
… neuro-scientific advances made in relation to mirror neurons provide a radical new understanding of how fault can be ascertained in both individual and collective action. Accordingly, the perception that the manifest approach to fault is incompatible with the subjectivist ideology of the …
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Three problems of folk psychology: meaning, character, and domain
… of much interest in the current literature: what mirror neurons can tell us about how mindreading works. Some simulationists argue that mirror neurons provide a neurological ground for simulationist accounts, lending them empirical support. But to assess this claim, one must first understand what …
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Neuroethology of Social Attention in Primates
… processes. Indeed, we found gaze cues influenced neurons in LIP, part of the dorsal frontoparietal attention network. Finally, we report that "mirror" neurons in parietal areas may thus play a role not only in representing perceived bodily actions, but also perceived mental states such as observed …
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Observation inflation and self-action inflation. Investigation of source memory errors as a result of action observation and action performance
… and performance. This has been attributed to mirror neurone activity. To test this, observation and self-action inflations are investigated for different types of actions (meaningful, meaningless and communicative) known to evoke different mirror neurone activity. Different age groups (young …
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Independent Component Analysis of Event-Related Electroencephalography During Speech and Non-Speech Discrimination: : Implications for the Sensorimotor ∆∞ Rhythm in Speech Processing
<p><strong>Background:</strong> The functional significance of sensorimotor integration in acoustic speech processing is unclear despite more than three decades of neuroimaging research. Constructivist theories have long speculated that listeners make predictions about articulatory goals …
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Lovable lamps and sad umbrellas : empathizing with inanimate objects in animated films.
Why do people empathize with movie characters who aren't human beings? What causes viewers to perceive inanimate objects as people, such as the hopping lamp in Pixar's Luxo Jr.? These questions are under-researched in scholarly literature. Thus, this study used an original, animated video as a …