Four distinct models of the functional contribution of mirror neurons to social cognition can be distinguished: direct matching, inverse modeling, response modeling, and predictive coding. Each entails a different way in which an agent's own capacities for action and affective experience contribute to understanding and/or predicting others' actions and affective experience. In this paper, the four models and their theoretical frameworks are elucidated, empirical data and theoretical arguments bearing upon each are reviewed, and falsifiable predictions that could help to distinguish empirically among the models are proposed.

Four models of the functional contribution of mirror systems / J. Michael. - In: PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATIONS. - ISSN 1386-9795. - 14:2(2011), pp. 185-194. [10.1080/13869795.2011.569747]

Four models of the functional contribution of mirror systems

J. Michael
2011

Abstract

Four distinct models of the functional contribution of mirror neurons to social cognition can be distinguished: direct matching, inverse modeling, response modeling, and predictive coding. Each entails a different way in which an agent's own capacities for action and affective experience contribute to understanding and/or predicting others' actions and affective experience. In this paper, the four models and their theoretical frameworks are elucidated, empirical data and theoretical arguments bearing upon each are reviewed, and falsifiable predictions that could help to distinguish empirically among the models are proposed.
interaction; inverse modeling; mirror neurons; predictive coding; simulation theory
Settore M-PSI/01 - Psicologia Generale
2011
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