Mirroring People The New Science of How We Connect with Others

Name: Mirroring People The New Science of How We Connect with Others
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ISBN: 9780374210175

ISBN-10: 0374210179

ISBN-13: 9780374210175

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marco Iacoboni

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What accounts for the remarkable ability to get inside another person’s head—to know what they’re thinking and feeling? “Mind reading” is the very heart of what it means to be human, creating a bridge between self and others that is fundamental to the development of culture and society. But until recently, scientists didn’t understand what in the brain makes it possible. nbsp; This has all changed in the last decade. Marco Iacoboni, a leading neuroscientist whose work has been covered in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal, explains the groundbreaking research into mirror neurons, the “smart cells” in our brain that allow us to understand others. From…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/13/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Marco Iacoboni is Associate Professor and Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center. He is also a member of the Brain Research Institute and of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development at UCLA.




Monkey See. Monkey Do


Neuro This!


Brain Surprises


The Fab Four


Mirrors in the Brain


I Know What You Are Doing


I Know What You Are Thinking


I Can Hear What You Are Doing


Mirroring Tool Use


I Know That You Are Copying Me



Simon Says


Copycat Cells


Resonating Bodies


Do What I Say, Not What I Do


Harry Potter and Professor Snape


Getting a Grip on Other Minds



Grasping Language


Do You See What I Am Saying?


Hand to Mouth


From Brain Mapping to Brain Zapping


Body Heat


Chat Rooms


Mirroring Speech and Other Sounds



See Me, Feel Me


Zidane's Head-Butt


Humans or Chameleons?


Empathic Mirrors


I Feel Your Pain


Maternal Empathy



Facing Yourself


Is It You or Is It Me?


The Mirror Recognition Test


Another Me


Zapping the Self


Two Sides of the Same Coin



Broken Mirrors


Baby Mirrors


The Teen Brain


Imitation and Autism


The Mirror Neuron Hypothesis of Autism


Broken Mirroring


Fixing the Broken Mirrors



Super Mirrors and the Wired Brain


Dark Waves in the Brain


In the Depth of the Human Brain


The Jennifer Aniston Cell


In Search of Super Mirror Neurons



The Bad and the Ugly: Violence and Drug Abuse


The Bad: The Controversy About Media Violence


Are We Autonomous Agents? Mirror Neurons and Free Will


The Ugly: Addiction and Its Relapse After Quitting



Mirroring Wanting and Liking


The Neuroscience of Buying


The One-Nighter: "Instant Science" and the Super Bowl


Mirroring Ads


The Effects of Negative Ads



Neuropolitics


Theories of Political Attitudes


Mirroring and the Political Junkie Brain


Brain Politics



Existential Neuroscience and Society


Mirror Cells Between Us


The Problem of Intersubjectivity


A New Existentialism


Neuroscience and Society


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index