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Demystifying social cognition: a Hebbian perspective
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Based on the anatomical connections of these areas, and the Hebbian learning rule, a simple but powerful account of how the monkey brain can learn to understand the actions of others by associating them with self-produced actions, at the also discriminating its own actions from those of others is proposed.About:
This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2004-11-01. It has received 565 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hebbian theory.read more
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The Social Brain: Neural Basis of Social Knowledge
TL;DR: A broad survey of the key abilities, processes, and ways in which to relate these to data from cognitive neuroscience is provided.
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Social cognition and the brain: a meta-analysis.
TL;DR: The results suggest that inferring temporary states such as goals, intentions, and desires of other people-even when they are false and unjust from the authors' own perspective--strongly engages the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in social cognition.
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The empathic brain: how, when and why?
TL;DR: This work proposes two major roles for empathy; its epistemological role is to provide information about the future actions of other people, and important environmental properties, and proposes a contextual approach, suggesting several modulatory factors that might influence empathic brain responses.
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Imitation, Empathy, and Mirror Neurons
TL;DR: There is a convergence between cognitive models of imitation, constructs derived from social psychology studies on mimicry and empathy, and recent empirical findings from the neurosciences that suggest that experience-based Hebbian learning forms links between sensory processing of the actions of others and motor plans.
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Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: a meta-analysis.
Frank Van Overwalle,Kris Baetens +1 more
TL;DR: There seems, however, to be a transition from the mirror to the mentalizing system even when body-part motions are observed by perceivers who are consciously deliberating about the goals of others and their behavioral executions, such as when perceived body motions are contextually inconsistent, implausible or pretended.
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Action recognition in the premotor cortex
TL;DR: It is proposed that mirror neurons form a system for matching observation and execution of motor actions, similar to that of mirror neurons exists in humans and could be involved in recognition of actions as well as phonetic gestures.
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Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions.
TL;DR: It is suggested that the development of the lateral verbal communication system in man derives from a more ancient communication system based on recognition of hand and face gestures.
Research report Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions
TL;DR: In the monkey premotor cortex there are neurons that discharge both when the monkey performs an action and when he observes a similar action made by another monkey or by the experimenter as mentioned in this paper.
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Regulation of Synaptic Efficacy by Coincidence of Postsynaptic APs and EPSPs
TL;DR: In dual whole-cell voltage recordings from pyramidal neurons, the coincidence of post Synaptic action potentials and unitary excitatory postsynaptic potentials was found to induce changes in EPSPs.
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Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the understanding and imitation of action.
TL;DR: Evidence for the existence of a system, the 'mirror system', that seems to serve this mapping function in primates and humans is discussed, and its implications for the understanding and imitation of action are explored.