A Mechanistic View of the Expression and Experience of Emotion in the Arts Deeper Than Reason: Emotion and Its Role in Literature, Music and Art

keeping in mind the work of Frith and Frith (chapter 3) and Schaal, Ijspeert, and Billard (chapter 9), which raises concerns about the generalization of efficient computational models of social interactions to novel contexts. In sum, there have been tremendous advances in our understanding of the links between the mind, brain, and behavior over the past decade, but people generally have been considered as isolated units in these analyses. People are inherently social creatures, however, and the tools are now available to determine the biological mechanisms underlying social cognition, emotion, and interactions. As Frith and Wolpert note, uncovering the biological mechanisms underlying social interactions undoubtedly is one of the major problems for the neurosciences to address in the 21st century. For anyone interested in tackling this problem, The Neuroscience of Social Interaction is must reading.