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Mirror neurons may hold the brain's key to social interaction - each coding not only a particular action or emotion but also the recognition of that action or emotion in others. The Mirror System Hypothesis adds an evolutionary arrow to the story - from the mirror system for hand actions, shared with monkeys and chimpanzees, to the uniquely human mirror system for language. In this accessible 2006 volume, experts from child development, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, primatology and robotics present and analyse the mirror system and show how studies of action and language can illuminate each other. Topics discussed in the fifteen chapters include: what do chimpanzees and humans have in common? Does the human capability for language rest on brain mechanisms shared with other animals? How do human infants acquire language? What can be learned from imaging the human brain? How are sign- and spoken-language related? Will robots learn to act and speak like humans?
| ISBN | 0521847559 | | Pages | 566 | | ISBN13 | 9780521847551
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Cambridge University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 1261 | | Imprint | Cambridge University Press | | Published in | Cambridge | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 247 | | Publication date | 07 Sep 2006 | | Width (mm) | 174 | | DEWEY | 401.9 | | Spine width (mm) | 31 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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| 1 | | The mirror system hypothesis on the linkage of action and languages by Michael A. Arbib | | 3 | | 2 | | The origin and evolution of language : a plausible, strong-AI account by Jerry R. Hobbs | | 48 | | 3 | | Cognition, imitation, and culture in the great apes by Craig B. Stanford | | 91 | | 4 | | The signer as an embodied mirror neuron system : neural mechanisms underlying sign language and action by Karen Emmorey | | 110 | | 5 | | Neural homologies and the grounding of neurolinguistics by Michael A. Arbib and Mihail Bota | | 136 | | 6 | | Dynamic systems : brain, body, and imitation by Stefan Schaal | | 177 | | 7 | | The role of vocal tract gestural action units in understanding the evolution of phonology by Louis Goldstein and Dani Byrd and Elliot Saltzman | | 215 | | 8 | | Lending a helping hand to hearing : another motor theory of speech perception by Jeremy I. Skipper and Howard C. Nusbaum and Steven L. Small | | 250 | | 9 | | Attention and the minimal subscene by Laurent Itti and Michael A. Arbib | | 289 | | 10 | | Action verbs, argument structure constructions, and the mirror neuron system by David Kemmerer | | 347 | | 11 | | Language evidence for changes in a theory of mind by Andrew S. Gordon | | 374 | | 12 | | The development of grasping and the mirror system by Erhan Oztop and Michael A. Arbib and Nina Bradley | | 397 | | 13 | | Development of goal-directed imitation, object manipulation, and language in humans and robots by Ioana D. Goga and Aude Billard | | 424 | | 14 | | Assisted imitation : affordances, effectivities, and the mirror system in early language development by Patricia Zukow-Goldring | | 469 | | 15 | | Implications of mirror neurons for the ontogeny and phylogeny of cultural processes : the examples of tools and language by Patricia Greenfield | | 501 |
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