Herding brains: a core neural mechanism for social alignment

SG Shamay-Tsoory, N Saporta, IZ Marton-Alper… - Trends in cognitive …, 2019 - cell.com
When we clap our hands in synchrony, feel the sadness of a friend, or match our attitudes to
peer norms, we align our behavior with others. We propose here a model that views …

What modulates the mirror neuron system during action observation?: Multiple factors involving the action, the actor, the observer, the relationship between actor and …

D Kemmerer - Progress in Neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Seeing an agent perform an action typically triggers a motor simulation of that action in the
observer's Mirror Neuron System (MNS). Over the past few years, it has become increasingly …

The observation and execution of actions share motor and somatosensory voxels in all tested subjects: single-subject analyses of unsmoothed fMRI data

V Gazzola, C Keysers - Cerebral cortex, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Many neuroimaging studies of the mirror neuron system (MNS) examine if certain voxels in
the brain are shared between action observation and execution (shared voxels, sVx) …

The thing that should not be: predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions

AP Saygin, T Chaminade, H Ishiguro… - Social cognitive and …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) repetition suppression, we explored
the selectivity of the human action perception system (APS), which consists of temporal …

Embodied cognition and the simulation of action to understand others

ST Grafton - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the goals or intentions of other people requires a broad range of evaluative
processes including the decoding of biological motion, knowing about object properties, and …

Neural correlates of the use of psychological distancing to regulate responses to negative social cues: a study of patients with borderline personality disorder

HW Koenigsberg, J Fan, KN Ochsner, X Liu… - Biological …, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Emotional instability is a defining feature of borderline personality disorder
(BPD); yet, little is understood about its underlying neural correlates. One possible …

Reappraising social emotions: the role of inferior frontal gyrus, temporo-parietal junction and insula in interpersonal emotion regulation

A Grecucci, C Giorgetta, N Bonini… - Frontiers in human …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Previous studies have reported the effect of emotion regulation (ER) strategies on both
individual and social decision-making, however, the effect of regulation on socially driven …

Neural correlates of using distancing to regulate emotional responses to social situations

HW Koenigsberg, J Fan, KN Ochsner, X Liu, K Guise… - Neuropsychologia, 2010 - Elsevier
Cognitive reappraisal is a commonly used and highly adaptive strategy for emotion
regulation that has been studied in healthy volunteers. Most studies to date have focused on …

[BOOK][B] The measure of madness: Philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience, and delusional thought

P Gerrans - 2014 - books.google.com
Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions
are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences. In The Measure of …

The two-level theory of verb meaning: An approach to integrating the semantics of action with the mirror neuron system

D Kemmerer, J Gonzalez-Castillo - Brain and language, 2010 - Elsevier
Verbs have two separate levels of meaning. One level reflects the uniqueness of every verb
and is called the “root”. The other level consists of a more austere representation that is …