tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post2524058865594970568..comments2024-03-28T09:41:15.454-05:00Comments on Deric's MindBlog: Speakers and Listeners - fMRI shows coupled brainsDeric Bowndshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-6487210752357164482010-08-05T06:06:18.958-05:002010-08-05T06:06:18.958-05:00It seems as if it weren’t only words, erasing such...It seems as if it weren’t only words, erasing such activity, coupling but rather “communication”, which is more than only allocating sense to words, but a reconciliation of context.<br /><br />Assuming that communicating partners have different episodic memories, “emotional maps”, one normaly would expect that these differences would result in at least variations of activation patterns<br /><br />The question was: could there be another driving force behind it: a type of priming to align on a higher-level structure: mind.<br /> <br />The evolutionary advantage of such “priming to align” could have been an automatic calibration of how to review of “what is out there”.<br /><br />If this is so, mind would then have to be interpretad much less subjectively but more as an attribute of agentivity.heribert buergernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-5471035947019765442010-08-04T10:11:44.189-05:002010-08-04T10:11:44.189-05:00I don't know how much this will "open a n...I don't know how much this will "open a new window", besides showing that it's technically possible to do this technique with two people and be able to identify coupling in their fMRI reading. This does nothing but confirm the ideas that when we speak to someone, it's associated with a certain type of brain activity, and when we listen to words, it's also associated with a certain type of brain activity. Of course they are coupled, and of course they are decoupled when the two aren't working together. I don't think this is a theoretically groundbreaking study at all, although it does provide an interesting technique that might, as the authors suggest, allow the quantification of story comprehension (or social attention) at the neural level.Mike Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07650701412022872445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-57816763121274357392010-08-04T07:47:59.185-05:002010-08-04T07:47:59.185-05:00This does remind me a little bit of the mirror neu...This does remind me a little bit of the mirror neuron revelations - tangentially of course. Dr. Disshum's last blog ..<a href="http://solidstatepsychobabble.posterous.com/how-process-goals-make-winners" rel="nofollow">How process goals can make you win</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com