The emergence of mirror-like response properties from domain-general principles in vision and audition.
Like Cook et al., we suggest that mirror neurons are a fascinating product of cross-modal learning. As predicted by an associative account, responses in motor regions are observed for novel and/or abstract visual stimuli such as point-light and android movements. Domain-specific mirror responses also emerge as a function of audiomotor expertise that is slowly acquired over years of intensive training.
Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515. saygin@cogsci.ucsd.edu http://www.sayginlab.org.
Ayse P
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Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom. f.dick@bbk.ac.uk http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/our-research/labs/alphalab.
Frederic
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Dick
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D059167:Mirror Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D012938:Social Perception