Mirror neurons may hold the brain's key to social interaction - each coding not only a particular action or emotion but also the recognition of that action or emotion in others. The Mirror System Hypothesis adds an evolutionary arrow to the story - from the mirror system for hand actions, shared with monkeys and chimpanzees, to the uniquely human mirror system for language. In this accessible 2006 volume, experts from child development, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, primatology and robotics present and analyse the mirror system and show how studies of action and language can illuminate each other. Topics discussed in the fifteen chapters include: what do chimpanzees and humans have in common? Does the human capability for language rest on brain mechanisms shared with other animals? How do human infants acquire language? What can be learned from imaging the human brain? How are sign- and spoken-language related? Will robots learn to act and speak like humans?
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In this 2006 book, internationally recognised experts from child development, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, primatology and robotics discuss the role of the mirror neuron system for the recognition of hand actions and the evolutionary basis for the brain mechanisms that support language.
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Michael A. Arbib is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, as well as a Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Southern California (USC), which he joined in 1986. He has been named as one of a small group of university professors at USC in recognition of his contributions across many disciplines.
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Dani Byrd is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California, a Vice Dean of USC College, and a Research Affiliate of Haskins Laboratories. In 2003 she won the R. Bruce Lindsay Award from the Acoustical Society of America for her research in motor control and timing in speech production, and in 2008 was made a Fellow of the Society, cited for her research on the relation of linguistic structures to the temporal realization of speech. With her co-author, Toby Mintz, she enjoys writing for lay audiences and young people being introduced to the scientific study of language.
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mirror system hypothesis, manual gesticulations, nesting cups task, enabler node, human mirror system, mirror neuron system, axiom cluster, communicative mouth actions, conjunctive neurons, sign language comprehension, argument structure constructions, canonical neurons, saliency signal, audiovisual speech perception, dynamic visual scene, oral constriction gestures, dynamic movement primitives, monkey ventral premotor cortex, mirror neurons, ingestive actions, ascension construction, manipulates cup, multisensory contexts, motor primitives, visual scene perception Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Brain Res, Lawrence Erlbaum, Oxford University Press, Brain Sci, Trends Cogn, Child Devel, Academic Press, Harvard University Press, Trends Neurosci, University of Chicago Press, Brain Lang, Nature Neurosci, Natl Acad, San Diego, Brain Map, John Wiley, Nature Rev, Michael Arbib, Minimalist Program, Proceedings Int, Vision Res, Joy of Grasping, Princeton University Press New!
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- Imitation in Animals and Artifacts (Complex Adaptive Systems) by Kerstin Dautenhahn on 11 pages
- The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (A Bradford Book) by Michael A. Arbib on 9 pages
- Language Evolution (Studies in the Evolution of Language) by Morten H. Christiansen on 7 pages
- The New Cognitive Neurosciences: Second Edition by Michael S. Gazzaniga on 4 pages
- Speech: A Special Code (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) by Alvin M. Liberman on page 132, page 211, and page 246
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