The Neuroscience of Social Interaction
Decoding, imitating and influencing the actions of others
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 January 2004
- ISBN 9780198529262
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 232x155x19 mm
- Weight 563 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures & halftones 0
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Short description:
Human beings have the unique ability to mentalize, that is to perceive and communicate mental states such as beliefs and desires. One of the key problems in science is to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying mentalizing and to show how these mechanisms evolved. The Neuroscience of Social Interactions is an important first step in uncovering the biological mechanisms underlying social interactions - undoubtedly one of the major programmes for neuroscience in the 21st century.
MoreLong description:
Humans, like other primates, are intensely social creatures. One of the main functions of our brains is to enable us to be as skilful in social interactions as we are in our interactions with the physical world. Any differences between human brains and those of our nearest relatives, the great apes, are likely to be linked to our unique achievements in social interaction and communication rather than our motor or perceptual skills. Unique to humans is the ability to mentalise (or mind read), that is to perceive and communicate mental states, such as beliefs and desires.
A key problem facing neuroscience is to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying our ability to read other minds and to show how these mechanisms evolved. To solve this problem we need to do experiments in which people (or animals) interact with one another rather than behaving in isolation. Such experiments are now being conducted in increasing numbers and many of the leading exponents of such experiments have contributed to this volume. 'The Neuroscience of Social Interactions' will be an important step in uncovering the biological mechanisms underlying social interactions - undoubtedly one of the major programmes for neuroscience in the twenty-first century.
With their book, Frith and Wolpert have made an important contribution to the nascent field of social neuroscience by precisely defining a specific subtopic and emphasizing different perspectives . . . A decade from now there will most likely be a journal, society and annual meeting devoted to social neuroscience, but it is sill unclear how all of the research relevant to this topic will combine to form this new discipline. Organizing the extant literature on the neuroscience of social behaviour, as this volume has done, will help shape the growth of this emerging field.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: the study of social interactions
Biological motion: decoding social signals
Electrophysiology and brain imaging of biological motion
Teleological and referential understanding of action in infancy
Development and neurophysiology of mentalizing
Mathematical modelling of animate and intentional motion
Mirror Neurons: Imitating the Behaviour of Others
What imitation tells us about social cognition: a rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience
Action generation and action perception in imitation: an instance of the ideomotor principle
The manifold nature of interpersonal relations: the quest for a common mechanism
Imitation as behaviour parsing
Computational approaches to motor learning by imitation
Mentalizing: Closing the Communication Loop
Detecting agents
Facial expressions, their communicatory functions and neuro-cognitive substrates
Models of dyadic social interaction
Dressing the mind properly for the game
The unifying computational framework for motor control and social interaction
