Positing a space mirror mechanism: intentional understanding without action?

Recent evidence regarding a novel functionality of the mirror neuron system (MNS), a so-called 'space mirror mechanism', seems to reinforce the central role of the MNS in social cognition. According to the space mirror hypothesis, neural mirroring accounts for understanding not just what a...

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Autor: Toribio Mateas, Josefa
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Teoria de l'acció
Neurones mirall
Neurociència cognitiva
Action theory
Mirror neurons
Cognitive neuroscience
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Positing a space mirror mechanism: intentional understanding without action?
title Positing a space mirror mechanism: intentional understanding without action?
spellingShingle Positing a space mirror mechanism: intentional understanding without action?
Toribio Mateas, Josefa
Teoria de l'acció
Neurones mirall
Neurociència cognitiva
Action theory
Mirror neurons
Cognitive neuroscience
title_short Positing a space mirror mechanism: intentional understanding without action?
title_full Positing a space mirror mechanism: intentional understanding without action?
title_fullStr Positing a space mirror mechanism: intentional understanding without action?
title_full_unstemmed Positing a space mirror mechanism: intentional understanding without action?
title_sort Positing a space mirror mechanism: intentional understanding without action?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Toribio Mateas, Josefa
author Toribio Mateas, Josefa
author_facet Toribio Mateas, Josefa
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Teoria de l'acció
Neurones mirall
Neurociència cognitiva
Action theory
Mirror neurons
Cognitive neuroscience
topic Teoria de l'acció
Neurones mirall
Neurociència cognitiva
Action theory
Mirror neurons
Cognitive neuroscience
description Recent evidence regarding a novel functionality of the mirror neuron system (MNS), a so-called 'space mirror mechanism', seems to reinforce the central role of the MNS in social cognition. According to the space mirror hypothesis, neural mirroring accounts for understanding not just what an observed agent is doing, but also the range of potential actions that a suitably located object affords an observed agent in the absence of any motor behaviour. This paper aims to show that the advocate of this space mirror hypothesis faces a crippling dilemma. Either what observed agents can do remains underdetermined by space mirror representations, and no proper understanding of action potentiality is gained; or, if it is just understanding of potential motor acts that is achieved through the sensorimotor representations generated by shared object-related affordances, the very explanatory role of space mirroring is compromised.
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