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Mirroring people : the science of empathy and how we connect with others /

By: Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Picador, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: First Picador editionDescription: xii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780312428389
  • 0312428383
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QP363 .I23 2009
Contents:
ch.1. 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 -- ch. 2. 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 -- ch.3. 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 -- ch.4. See me, feel me -- Zidane's head-butt -- Humans or chameleons? -- Empathic mirrors -- I feel your pain -- Maternal empathy -- ch.5. Facing yourself -- Is it you or is it me? -- The mirror recognition test -- Another me -- Zapping the self -- Two sides of the same coin -- ch. 6. Broken mirrors -- Baby mirrors -- The teen brain -- Imitation and autism -- The mirror neuron hypothesis of autism -- Broken mirroring -- Fixing the broken mirrors -- ch.7. 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 -- ch.8. 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 -- ch. 9. Mirroring wanting and liking -- The neuroscience of buying -- The one-nighter: "instant science" and the Super Bowl -- Mirroring ads -- The effects of negative ads -- ch. 10. Neuropolitics -- Theories of political attitudes -- Mirroring and the political junkie brain -- Brain politics -- ch.11. Existential neuroscience and society -- Mirror cells between us -- The problem of intersubjectivity -- A new existentialism -- Neuroscience and society.
Summary: Draws on recent scientific findings in neuroscience to introduce the concept of mirror neuron "smart cells" that enable a person's ability to understand fellow humans, in an account that evaluates the role of mirror neurons in a range of aspects from morality and addiction to political affiliations and consumer choices.
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Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. With a new afterword by the author.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ch.1. 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 -- ch. 2. 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 -- ch.3. 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 -- ch.4. See me, feel me -- Zidane's head-butt -- Humans or chameleons? -- Empathic mirrors -- I feel your pain -- Maternal empathy -- ch.5. Facing yourself -- Is it you or is it me? -- The mirror recognition test -- Another me -- Zapping the self -- Two sides of the same coin -- ch. 6. Broken mirrors -- Baby mirrors -- The teen brain -- Imitation and autism -- The mirror neuron hypothesis of autism -- Broken mirroring -- Fixing the broken mirrors -- ch.7. 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 -- ch.8. 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 -- ch. 9. Mirroring wanting and liking -- The neuroscience of buying -- The one-nighter: "instant science" and the Super Bowl -- Mirroring ads -- The effects of negative ads -- ch. 10. Neuropolitics -- Theories of political attitudes -- Mirroring and the political junkie brain -- Brain politics -- ch.11. Existential neuroscience and society -- Mirror cells between us -- The problem of intersubjectivity -- A new existentialism -- Neuroscience and society.

Draws on recent scientific findings in neuroscience to introduce the concept of mirror neuron "smart cells" that enable a person's ability to understand fellow humans, in an account that evaluates the role of mirror neurons in a range of aspects from morality and addiction to political affiliations and consumer choices.

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