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Actions, representations and intersubjectivity: From mirror neurons to multiple sharing systems
No full textFrom mirror neurons to the shared manifold hypothesis: A neurophysiological account of intersubjectivity
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Naturalizing aesthetic experience: The role of (liberated) embodied simulation
No full textThe naturalization of the aesthetic experience of film and art can benefit from the contribution of neuroscience because we can investigate empirically the concepts we use when referring to it and what they are made of at the level of description of the brain-body. The neuroscientific subpersonal level of description is necessary but not sufficient, unless it is coupled with a full appreciation of the tight relationship that the brain entertains with the body and the world. In this article, I will discuss aspects of Murray Smith's proposal on the aesthetic experience of art and film as presented in his Film, Art, and the Third Culture against the background of a new model of perception and imagination: embodied simulation
The "conscious" dorsal stream: Embodied simulation and its role in space and action conscious awareness
No full textThe aim of the present article is three-fold. First, it aims to show that perception requires action. This is most evident for some types of visual percept (e.g. space perception and action perception). Second, it aims to show that the distinction of the cortical visual processing into two streams is insufficient and leads to possible misunderstandings on the true nature of perceptual processes. Third, it aims to show that the dorsal stream is not only responsible for the unconscious control of action, but also for the conscious awareness of space and action
The brain and the self: Reviewing the neuroscientific evidence
No full textThe ideas of Bermudez on non-conceptual content and on a possible prelinguistic account of self-consciousness are discussed in the light of recent neuroscientific findings. In particular, a new relationship between action and perception is presented, and agency is proposed as the key starting point to build a pre-conceptual representational account of the world
The ventro-dorsal stream: Parieto-premotor neural circuits and their role in primate cognition
No full textThe aim of the present chapter is twofold. First it aims to show that perception requires action. This is most evident for space and action perception. Second, it aims to show that the distinction of the cortical visual processing into two streams is insufficient and leads to possible misunderstandings on the true nature of perceptual processes. I review empirical findings suggesting that visual processing is carried out along three distinct visual pathways qualified as dorso-dorsal, ventro-dorsal, and ventral streams. The relevant anatomical and functional features of the ventro-dorsal stream are presented and discussed
Bodily Selves in Relation: Embodied simulation as second-person perspective on intersubjectivity.
No full textThis article addresses basic aspects of social cognition focusing on the pivotal role played by the lived body in the constitution of our experience of others. It is suggested that before studying intersubjectivity we should better qualify the notion of the self. A minimal notion of the self, the bodily self, defined in terms of its motor potentialities, is proposed. The discovery of mirror mechanisms for action, emotions and sensations led to the proposal of an embodied approach to intersubjectivity-embodied simulation (ES) theory. ES and the related notion of neural reuse provide a new empirically based perspective on intersubjectivity, viewed first and foremost as intercorporeality. ES challenges the notion that folk psychology is the sole account of interpersonal understanding. ES is discussed within a second-person perspective on mindreading
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