A mass assembly of associative mechanisms: a dynamical systems account of natural social interaction.
The target article offers a negative, eliminativist thesis, dissolving the specialness of mirroring processes into a solution of associative mechanisms. We support the authors' project enthusiastically. What they are currently missing, we argue, is a positive, generative thesis about associative learning mechanisms and how they might give way to the complex, multimodal coordination that naturally arises in social interaction.
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100. nicholas.duran@asu.edu http://dynamicog.org.
Nicholas D
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Duran
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, Cognitive & Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343. rdale@ucmerced.edu http://cognaction.org.
Rick
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Dale
Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. dcr@eyethink.org http://eyethink.org.
Daniel C
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Richardson
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D059167:Mirror Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D012938:Social Perception