More questions for mirror neurons.
Conscious Cogn
; 22(3): 1122-31, 2013 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
The mirror neuron system is widely held to provide direct access to the motor goals of others. This paper critically investigates this idea, focusing on the so-called 'intentional worry'. I explore two answers to the intentional worry first that the worry is premised on too limited an understanding of mirror neuron behaviour (Sections 2 and 3), second that the appeal made to mirror neurons can be refined in such a way as to avoid the worry (Section 4). I argue that the first response requires an account of the mechanism by which small-scale gestures are supposedly mapped to larger chains of actions but that none of the extant accounts of this mechanism are plausible. Section 4 then briefly examines refinements of the mirror neuron-mindreading hypothesis which avoid the intentional worry. I conclude that these refinements may well be plausible but that they undermine many of the claims standardly made for mirror neurons.
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Assunto principal:
Percepção Social
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Intenção
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Teoria da Mente
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Neurônios-Espelho
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Gestos
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Atividade Motora
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Animals
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Humans
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Conscious Cogn
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2013
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