Showing posts with label mirror neurons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mirror neurons. Show all posts
Friday, August 06, 2021

Seeing others react to threats triggers our own internal threat responses.

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From Haaker et al. (open source) :  Significance Social transmission of threat information by observation is effective in humans and other...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

How mice feel each other's pain or fear

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The abstract from Smith et al , who show the brain basis of empathetic behaviors in mice that mirror those in humans: Empathy is an essenti...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Mammalian empathy: neural basis and behavioral manifestations

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I want to point to an interesting review by de Waal and Preston in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Here are the Abstract and a few excerpts f...
Monday, January 25, 2016

The evolution of dance

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From Laland et al. : Evidence from multiple sources reveals a surprising link between imitation and dance. As in the classical correspon...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

How learning shapes the empathic brain.

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From Hein et al. : Abstract Deficits in empathy enhance conflicts and human suffering. Thus, it is crucial to understand how empathy ca...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Knowing the internal states of ourselves and of others.

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We frequently can infer the emotional state of someone from the style of their movement, distinguishing, for example, when they hand us some...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

The evolution of gender effects on empathy.

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Christov-Moore et al. offer a review making the point that differences in the capacity for empathy between males and females have deep evol...
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Thursday, January 01, 2015

Cerebral coherence between communicators.

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Stolk et al. have searched across the whole brain for a cerebral dynamics matching the behavioral dynamics of mutual understanding and note...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Synchrony between observers' brains during action observation.

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Nummenmaa et al. (free access article, check out the nice graphics) have examined how we can understand what another person might be thinki...
Friday, July 18, 2014

Feeling the social touch being observed in others.

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Interesting work by Bolognini et al. on our mirroring of the emotions of others : Touch has an emotional and communicative meaning, and i...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Compassion - Bridging Practice and Science

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Science magazine has an article by Kupferschmidt pointing to the work of Tania Singer, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cog...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The limits of empathy

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I thought I would follow up the Monday's post on well being, kindness, happiness and all that good stuff by noting a piece on how feel-g...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Social interactions prime us for motor empathy or resonance.

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Hogeveen and Obhi1 find that recent experience tunes our mirroring systems to particular agent types. A bit from their introduction, follow...
Friday, April 27, 2012

We don't project our visceral states onto dissimilar others.

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Interesting observations from O’Brien and Ellsworth on limits to the empathy of our embodied cognition: What people feel shapes their perce...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Feeling the moves - motor empathy with expert performance

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Jola et al. make the interesting observation that experienced viewers of ballet, even without physical training, covertly simulate the move...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Our mindreading of another person depends on how much skin we see!

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This interesting piece in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology makes observations on how our mindreading, or inferring someone&...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Heirarchies of empathy in the brain

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Following the previous post I thought it would be useful to pass on more of Panskepp's review, which provides a more general description...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

When it's an error to mirror...

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Mimicry and imitation can facilitate cultural learning, maintenance of culture, and group cohesion, and individuals must competently select ...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

The Empathetic Brain

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Christian Keyser, who does research on mirror neurons at The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, sent me an email yesterday pointing ou...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Speakers and Listeners - fMRI shows coupled brains

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As a followup to Monday's post on mirror neurons, this fascinating study by Stephens et al. shows that brain activities in a speaker-li...
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