On being moved : from mirror neurons to empathy / edited by Stein Braten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bråten, Stein.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 68.

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 68

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental neurobiology--Congresses.

Developmental neurobiology.

Mirror neurons--Congresses.

Mirror neurons.

Interpersonal communication in infants--Physiological aspects--Congresses.

Interpersonal communication in infants.

Emotions in infants--Physiological aspects--Congresses.

Emotions in infants.

Physical Description:

x, 333 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this collective volume the origins, neurosocial support, and therapeutic implications of (pre)verbal intersubjectivity are examined with a focus on implications of the discovery of mirror neurons. Entailing a paradigmatic revolution in the intersection of developmental, social and neural sciences, two radical turnabouts are entailed. First, no longer can be upheld as valid Cartesian and Leibnizian assumptions about monadic subjects with disembodied minds without windows to each other except as mediated by culture. Supported by a mirror system, specified in this volume by some of the discoverers, modes of participant perception have now been identified which entail embodied simulation and co-movements with others in felt immediacy. Second, no longer can be retained the Piagetian attribution of infant egocentricity. Pioneers who have broken new research grounds in the study of newborns, protoconversation, and early speech perception document in the present volume infant capacity for interpersonal communion, empathic identification, and learning by altercentric participation. Pertinent new findings and results are presented on these topics:(i) Origins and multiple layers of intersubjectivity and empathy(ii) Neurosocial support of (pre)verbal intersubjectivity, participant perception, and simulation of mind(iii) From preverbal sharing and early speech perception to meaning acquisition and verbal intersubjectivity(iv) New windows on other-centred movements and moments of meeting in therapy and intervention. (Series B).

Contents:

On Being Moved. From Mirror Neurons to Empathy

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Contributors

Introduction

A paradigmatic revolution

On Part I: Introducing the matrix and multiple layers of intersubjectivity

On Part II: Relating intersubjectivity in humans to the discovery of mirror neurons

On Part III: From preverbal to verbal intersubjectivity in child development

On Part IV: Applications and therapeutic implications of the intersubjective matrix

Notes and acknowledgments

References

Introducing the matrix and multiple layers of intersubjectivity and empathy

Prologue

Modes of intersubjectivity

Musicality in communication before language

Neurophysiological support and questions about phylogeny

Implications for the evolution of speech?

Notes

Applying developmental and neuroscience findings on other-centred participation to the process of change in psychotherapy

On philosophy of intersubjectivity

Neuroscience findings

Developmental findings on intersubjectivity

The intersubjective matrix

Some clinical implications: Now moment and moment of meeting

In summary

The 'Russian doll' model of empathy and imitation

Animal empathy

What is empathy?

Anecdotes of "changing places in fancy''

Consolation behaviour

Russian doll model

Acting like others

Note

Mirror neurons and origins of neurosocial support of (pre)verbal intersubjectivity and altercentricity

Mirror neurons and intersubjectivity

Mirror neurons: Monkey data

The mirror neuron system for actions in humans

Mirror neurons and primary intersubjectivity: Behavioural studies on synchrony and infant imitation in human and nonhuman primates.

The mirror neuron system and secondary intersubjectivity

Mirror neurons and the understanding of intentions

Mirroring emotions and sensations

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Human mirroring systems

Views into human brain function

MEG studies of the human mirror system

Imitation and the mirror-neuron system

Shaping of the mirror-neuron system

Predictions and goals in social interaction

Body as the display site of the mind

Staying tuned with multiple mirroring systems

Acknowledgments

Cues on the origin of language

Mirror neurons in monkeys

Mirror-neuron system in humans

What links hand actions with speech?

Conclusions

Altercentric infants and adults

Newborn imitation

When infants have learnt by imitation to feed a companion

Learning by altercentric participation leaving the learner with an `e-motional' memory

On mirror reversal in face-to-face situations and computational simulations

Mirror reversal entailed in imitative face-to-face situations

Computational 'network' simulation model explorations

Another computational model entailing mirror reversal from `eccentric' to egocentric

On partial neurosocial support and the hominin infant decentration hypothesis

A question about the potential role of cerebellum

From comparative studies of infant-adult interaction in humans and chimpanzees

The Hominin Infant Decentration Hypothesis

From (pre)verbal learning and listening to simulation of mind in human ontogeny

On the path to mind-reading

The listener during verbal conversation

On self- or other-simulation of mind

Simulation of mind or theory of mind?

Self-simulation versus other-simulation

Altercentricity manifested at various layers of intersubjectivity.

Manifestations of altercentricity at the layer of primary intersubjectivity

Manifestations of altercentricity at the layer of secondary intersubjectivity

Manifestations of altercentric simulation of mind at the layer of tertiary intersubjectivity

Appendix On the difference between imitation and anticipatory embodied simulation

From speech to gene

The behavioural phenotype

Comparison with adult-onset aphasia and speech dyspraxia

The neural basis of the phenotype

Morphological brain abnormalities

Volumetric analyses

Brain functional abnormalities

Functional abnormalities during covert verb generation

Functional abnormalities during overt generation and repetition task

The frontostriatal system and speech and language function

From preverbal to verbal intersubjectivity in child development

Intersubjectivity before language

The myth of the asocial infant

Our journey in this chapter

Sharing others' actions: Newborn imitation

Background and significance

Data and theory

Sharing others' attention

`Like me' and `like you': The importance of shared experiences

The relation between gaze following and language acquisition

Sharing others' goals and intentions

Conclusions. The centrality of preverbal intersubjectivity

Posing the problem

Mirror neurons

Innate human intersubjectivity

A mechanism of change for enriching intersubjectivity

Overturning the myth of the asocial newborn

Early speech perception

Overview of developmental speech perception research.

Native language learning drives the development of native-like speech perception

Phonetic perception in infants exposed to a second language at 9-10 months

The social and cultural relevance of shared speech perception

Social-cognitive factors in the development of speech perception

Current research and future directions

A final note about cultural diversity in language learning

On theories of dialogue, self and society

Socialization: Subject and structure

Action and structure. Human beings conceived as over- and under-socialized

Action and intersubjectivity

Nature and culture

Subject and society: Child's path into the social

Communication, intersubjectivity, and dialogue

The virtual other and the self as dialogue

Identity, culture, and dialogue

The cultural dialogues and social relations as patterns of movement

Dialogue and epistemology

Intersubjectivity, the nurture assumption, and the company of peers

The subject and the other

Acknowledgment

The intersubjectivity of imagination

Imagination revisited

The case and studies of imaginary companions

Method

Results

Discussion

A new prologue for imagination?

Applications and therapeutic implications

When empathic care is obstructed

The questions

The primary cycle of care

When children are negatively defined and stigmatised

Objectification and abuse

The zone of intimacy

Ways in and out of the zone of intimacy: Expulsion and inclusion

Inclusion into the zone through face-to-face and gaze contact (p) -&gt

P

Inclusion in the zone of intimacy through sensitive touch and bodily contact.

Inclusion in the zone of intimacy through imitation and sympathetic participation in the child's initiatives and activities

The ethics of closeness and the primary cycle of care

Acknowledgement

Family disseminate archives

On destiny

Family disseminate archives in light of poetry and Bråten's and Stern's theories

Perturbing infant-parents relationship: Theoretically informed counselling and psychotherapy

Two cases of psychotherapy and counselling

Reaching moments of shared experiences through musical improvisation

What is the project about?

Which basic musical elements form the congenital musical?

Basic hypotheses, material and methods of the project

The importance of seeking to create meaning without guaranteeing that it will lead to a shared meaning

The psychobiological founded source of musicality of the human being

Interaction and shared experience

The esthetical perspective

Using something else than training as a starting point or laissez faire

Lasse, an example

To sing and dance together

Communicative musicality is part of us, the way we converse by moving

Innate rhythms and expressions of relating

Moving to move others

An exact science of musical movement

Being moved by song

Coda: A strategy for finding the variables of human sympathy in movement

On circular re-enactment of care and abuse, and on other-centred moments in psychotherapy

When toddlers afford proto-care, even altruism

Basis for circular re-enactment

Empirical support: Abused toddlers are more likely to become abusive than other toddlers, and many adult abusers have been childhood victims of abuse.

Therapeutic dialogue in the intersubjective present.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 3-5, 2004 at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612154874

9781282154872

1282154877

9789027292759

9027292752

OCLC:

320323695