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...a wonderful book on the mirror neuron system written by the discoverers themselves. A must read for anyone wanting to keep up with this revolution. (Michael Schrift, DO, MA, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School )
...this is an excellent, and one might almost say essential, account...it makes for engaging reading. The tone is authoritative, succinct, and clear. (PsycCRITIQUES )
...this is an excellent, and one might almost say essential, account...it makes for engaging reading. The tone is authoritative, succinct, and clear. (PsycCRITIQUES )
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...a wonderful book on the mirror neuron system written by the discoverers themselves. A must read for anyone wanting to keep up with this revolution. Michael Schrift, DO, MA, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School ...this is an excellent, and one might almost say essential, account...it makes for engaging reading. The tone is authoritative, succinct, and clear. PsycCRITIQUES
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I attended Modena's philosophy festival in Italy in 2008 where I listened to the author of this book illustrate and demonstrate the discovery of mirror neurons (i neuroni a specchio). I was thrilled to have been at such a cutting edge talk about the dilemma that has dogged the patriarchal doctrines of my philosophical studies, How the heck do we pass (or in essence, justify the passage of) an immaterial entity (thought, idea)into action. How does the immaterial become material? How is it that it does not happen sometimes, gets rejected? Sure, in real life we just do it and leave the theorizing to the thinkers, that is until we do something we wish we had not done and wonder why or how it occurred. The topic of this book breaks the hegemony of the Kantian 'free' person model and leaves us free to contemplate a totally different matrix for human morality in care- ethics (Michael Slote, Virginia Held's ethics of care)which postulates the fundamental importance of sharing.
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"Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions", Giacomo Rizzolatti & Corrado Sinigaglia, Oxford Univ. Press, Engl. 2008(Ital. 2006). ISBN 978-0-19-921798-4, HC 242/193. Bibliog. 41 pgs., Index 8 pgs., 8 3/4" x 5 3/4".
A scholarly treatise, nimbly paraphrased in places to help increase its understandability and readability to a layperson, the book is an important one in understanding the more recent hypotheses on how the mind works, but it is frightfully far from being "written in a highly accessible style that conveys something of the excitement of this groundbreaking theory," a claim made on the book's cover. In order to do justice for the `general reader', a glossary of terminology plus a few well-labeled maps of the brain would have been helpful in addition to detailing how neuronal firing is mapped.
This English translation is certainly well done, very few grammatical errors are encountered (e.g., minimal for minutest, pg. 139). The author exhorts in 7 chapters the details of neuronal circuitry involved in its motor & sensory systems and explores the body's `acting brain', it's spatial co-ordinates, canonical and mirror neurons, concepts of imitation, language development and emotion sharing. The discussions of the newborn's milieu, its space & visual perceptions, and the discussion on language development are nicely done.
The authors, having introduced the subject matter of this book with "a cup of coffee", led me to expect a few more apropos analogies and, hopefully, some brief discussion of autism; -- but I met an abrupt halt at mention of empathy in subjects NK and B who had anatomical, vascular lesions. The book ended, suddenly, without fanfare or hint of some closure.
So, like many scholarly writings, this important treatise will remain, exactly as it was written, - inadequately read, - until someone is brave enough to distill the contents in style suitable for TCMITS, you know, that common man .... Perhaps we might ask Sharon Begley for a favor.
A scholarly treatise, nimbly paraphrased in places to help increase its understandability and readability to a layperson, the book is an important one in understanding the more recent hypotheses on how the mind works, but it is frightfully far from being "written in a highly accessible style that conveys something of the excitement of this groundbreaking theory," a claim made on the book's cover. In order to do justice for the `general reader', a glossary of terminology plus a few well-labeled maps of the brain would have been helpful in addition to detailing how neuronal firing is mapped.
This English translation is certainly well done, very few grammatical errors are encountered (e.g., minimal for minutest, pg. 139). The author exhorts in 7 chapters the details of neuronal circuitry involved in its motor & sensory systems and explores the body's `acting brain', it's spatial co-ordinates, canonical and mirror neurons, concepts of imitation, language development and emotion sharing. The discussions of the newborn's milieu, its space & visual perceptions, and the discussion on language development are nicely done.
The authors, having introduced the subject matter of this book with "a cup of coffee", led me to expect a few more apropos analogies and, hopefully, some brief discussion of autism; -- but I met an abrupt halt at mention of empathy in subjects NK and B who had anatomical, vascular lesions. The book ended, suddenly, without fanfare or hint of some closure.
So, like many scholarly writings, this important treatise will remain, exactly as it was written, - inadequately read, - until someone is brave enough to distill the contents in style suitable for TCMITS, you know, that common man .... Perhaps we might ask Sharon Begley for a favor.
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