PSY30400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mirror Neuron, Motor Cortex

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15 May 2018

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Chapter 9: Knowledge

• What do mirror neurons have to do with concepts?

o Lik etwee pereptio ad otor resposes is etral to eodied approah’s

proposal that thinking about concepts causes activation of perceptual / motor areas

associated with concepts

o Experiment showing that more brain activation for actual movements, but activation

by reading occurs in same area as well

▪ Semantic Somatopy:

• correspondence between words related to specific parts of body and

the location of brain activity

▪ Skepticism regarding whether embodied approach offers complete

explanation of how brain processes concepts

• Experiment testing Patient A.A. who had suffered stroke that

affected ability to produce actions associated with various objects

o could not do hand motions to indicate how he would use

objects

o However, according to theory, person who has trouble with

producing actions should have trouble recognizing as well, but

this was not the case with A.A.

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