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BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 1079, Issue -, Pages 15-24Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.01.054
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autism; embodied simulation; intentional attunement; mirror neuron; shared manifold; social cognition
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A direct form of experiential understanding of others, intentional attunement, is achieved by modeling their behavior as intentional experiences on the basis of the activation of shared neural systems underpinning what the others do and feel and what we do and feel. This modeling mechanism is embodied simulation in parallel with the detached sensory description of the observed social stimuli, internal representations of the body states associated with actions, emotions, and sensations are evoked in the observer, as if he/she would be doing a similar action or experiencing a similar emotion or sensation. Mirror neuron systems are likely the neural correlate of this mechanism. By means of a shared neural state realized in two different bodies, the objectual other becomes another self. A defective intentional attunement caused by a lack of embodied simulation might cause some of the social impairments of autistic individuals. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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