Dyadic brain modelling, mirror systems and the ontogenetic ritualization of ape gesture.
The paper introduces dyadic brain modelling, offering both a framework for modelling the brains of interacting agents and a general framework for simulating and visualizing the interactions generated when the brains (and the two bodies) are each coded up in computational detail. It models selected neural mechanisms in ape brains supportive of social interactions, including putative mirror neuron systems inspired by macaque neurophysiology but augmented by increased access to proprioceptive state. Simulation results for a reduced version of the model show ritualized gesture emerging from interactions between a simulated child and mother ape.
Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, , Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA.
Michael
M
Arbib
Varsha
V
Ganesh
Brad
B
Gasser
D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005868:Gestures; D015186:Hominidae / Q000254:growth & development*; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D059167:Mirror Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological
computer simulation; dyadic brain modelling; gesture in apes; mirror neuron systems; neural models; ontogenetic ritualization