PSYC 180 Lecture Notes - Speech Perception, Naked Short Selling, Social Cognition
8 May 2012
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The rise, dissemination, and controversy of mirror neurons. Brain uses them to mirror movements it sees. Part 1: thematic trajectories: three primary source publications for mirror neurones: Extends function of premotor cortex to include movement selection related to interpersonal relations . 1996 introduction of term mirror neurons . Less than 10 more studies emerge worldwide regarding neurophysiology of mirror neurons since 1996: 1950 publications cited the original three papers, growth in term social in mirror neuron literature in 2005-2006. Relatively few studies actually address the neuronal phenomenon. Most prominent research themes shifted from imitation to language to. Shift to social takes place in 2006. Part 3: the emergence of scientific controversy: criticism in 2008, exactly one research generation (2 years) after thematic switch from imitation to social/language/emotion , latour s second principle: A text is like a god bank; it lends more money than it has in its vault . Latour: the growth of social neuroscience publishing.
