Mirroring Minds: Are Mirror Neuron Systems the DNA of Psychology or a Red Herring?

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• • Christian

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    Published: 01-07-2015 05:27 pm
  • http://dericbownds.net/MirroringMinds.html
    
    "..And, Gallese pairs off with Lakoff to head into conceptual knowledge in a paper titled: The Brain's Concepts: The Role of the Sensory_Motor System in Conceptual Knowledge. (Download from http://www.unipr.it/arpa/mirror/english/staff/gallese.htm )
    They propose that the sensory-motor system has the right kind of structure to characterize both sensory-motor and more abstract concepts. ....that brain structures in the sensory-motor regions are exploited to characterize the so-called "abstract" concepts that constitute the meanings of grammatical constructions and general inference patterns."

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