Trends in Cognitive Sciences
LetterSimulation, mirroring, and a different argument from error
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2022, Journal of Business ResearchCitation Excerpt :The process of eating comprises a sequence of dynamic acts (provided that the food in question cannot be eaten in a single mouthful). The words “eat” and “eating” can activate neurons in the motor cortex (Pulvermüller, 1999), which engage when people execute an action (Schnitzler et al., 1997) as well as when people mentally simulate the action (Goldman & Sebanz, 2005; Raos, Evangeliou, & Savaki, 2007). Of note, neuroscience also has shown that the activation of motor cortical neurons is associated with the process of behaviors (Ohbayashi, 2021).
Equal egocentric bias in school-aged children with and without autism spectrum disorders
2016, Journal of Experimental Child PsychologyCitation Excerpt :Theory of mind refers to the ability to understand people as experiencing subjective mental states. Limited ToM of individuals with ASD can be conceptualized as an egocentric bias—a tendency to overestimate how similar other people’s experiences are to one’s own (Frith & de Vignemont, 2005; Goldman & Sebanz, 2005). This bias is typically assessed by asking children to reflect on a naive story character that holds an objectively false belief.
The role of shared neural activations, mirror neurons, and morality in empathy - A critical comment
2015, Neuroscience ResearchCitation Excerpt :Rather, it was influenced by similar findings and interpretations in the motor domain, such as the discovery of mirror neurons, and claims that these neurons, which fire both when the individual performs an action and when it observes its execution by others, lie at the root of understanding others’ actions (see Ferrari and Rizzolatti, 2014, for a recent review). Similarly, in social cognition, simulation and self-projection have been interpreted repeatedly as core mechanism of mentalizing, i.e., considering others’ beliefs, intentions or thoughts (Goldman and Sebanz, 2005; Mitchell, 2009). We will critically discuss these claims and the available evidence for it below.
Mindreading in individuals with an empathizing versus systemizing cognitive style: An fMRI study
2010, Brain Research BulletinCitation Excerpt :Common activation in single cells is also referred to as mirroring simulation. Common activation in a given brain area that does not involve single cells or mirror neurons (MNs) is referred to as non-mirroring simulation (see [28]). Non-mirroring simulation implies that one subset of neurons in a given brain area codes for the self-aspect of a particular cognitive task, and another subset of neurons for the other-aspect [16].
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