Intentional attunement: mirror neurons and the neural underpinnings of interpersonal relations.

Intentional Attunement. The Mirror Neuron system and its role in interpersonal relations

Consider the general biological problem of making sense of presence of another like oneself. One approach is to have a signal that indicates the category of the other. An example of this is a chick using an "imprint" to identify its mother. Another approach is to use a history of observations to characterize the other. But as the relevant state space and decision capabilities of the organism ex...

Mirror Neurons and (Inter)subjectivity: Typological Evidence from East Asian Languages

Language is primarily constituted by action and interaction based on sensorimotor information. This paper demonstrates the nature of subjectivity and intersubjectivity through the neural mechanism and typological evidence of sentence-final particles from East Asian languages and extends to the discussion of the relationship between them. I propose that intersubjecivity is a kind of embedded or ...

Intentional attunement: a neurophysiological perspective on social cognition and its disruption in autism.

A direct form of experiential understanding of others, "intentional attunement", is achieved by modeling their behavior as intentional experiences on the basis of the activation of shared neural systems underpinning what the others do an feel and what we do and feel. This modeling mechanism is embodied simulation. In parallel with the detached sensory description of the observed social stimuli,...

Mirror neurons and Intentional Attunement : A commentary on

Embodied simulation: from mirror neuron systems to interpersonal relations.

A direct form of 'experiential understanding' of others is achieved by modelling their behaviours as intentional experiences on the basis of the equivalence between what the others do and feel and what we do and feel. This modelling mechanism is embodied simulation. By means of embodied simulation we do not just 'see' an action, an emotion, or a sensation. Side by side with the sensory descript...