Neural Circuits Involved in the Recognition of Actions Performed by Nonconspecifics: An fMRI Study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Towards biomimetic neural learning for intelligent robots
Biomimetic Neural Learning for Intelligent Robots
Should empathic social robots have interiority?
ICSR'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Robotics
Performing with a system's intention: embodied cues in performer-system interaction
Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition
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Neuroscientific research has unveiled neural mechanisms mediating between the personal experiential knowledge we hold of our lived body, and the implicit certainties we simultaneously hold about others. Such personal, body-related experiential knowledge enables our intentional attunement with others, which in turn constitutes a shared manifold of intersubjectivity. This we-centric space allows us to personally characterize and provide experiential understanding to the actions performed by others, and the emotions and sensations they experience. A direct form of “experiential understanding” is achieved by modeling the behavior of other individuals as intentional experience on the basis of the equivalence between what the others do and feel and what we do and feel. This parsimonious modeling mechanism is embodied simulation. The mirror neuron system is likely a neural correlate of this mechanism. This account shades some light on too often sidelined aspects of social cognition. More generally, it emphasizes the role played in cognition by neural sensory-motor integration.