Embodied Cognition and Mirror Neurons: A Critical Assessment

被引：154

作者：

Caramazza, Alfonso ^{[1
,2
]}

Anzellotti, Stefano ^{[1
,2
]}

Strnad, Lukas ^{[1
]}

Lingnau, Angelika ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Harvard Univ, Dept Psychol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[2] Univ Trento, Ctr Mind Brain Sci, I-38100 Mattarello, Italy

[3] Univ Trento, Dept Psychol & Cognit Sci, I-38068 Rovereto, Trento, Italy

来源：

ANNUAL REVIEW OF NEUROSCIENCE, VOL 37 | 2014年 / 37卷

关键词：

concepts; embodied cognition; mirror neurons; simulation; action understanding; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; HUMAN BRAIN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL DISTINCTION; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; ACTION REPRESENTATIONS; ACTION EXECUTION; FUNCTIONAL-ROLE; SINGLE NEURONS;

D O I：

10.1146/annurev-neuro-071013-013950

中图分类号：

Q189 [神经科学];

学科分类号：

071006 ;

摘要：

According to embodied cognition theories, higher cognitive abilities depend on the reenactment of sensory and motor representations. In the first part of this review, we critically analyze the central claims of embodied theories and argue that the existing behavioral and neuroimaging data do not allow investigators to discriminate between embodied cognition and classical cognitive accounts, which assume that conceptual representations are a modal and symbolic. In the second part, we review the main claims and the core electrophysiological findings typically cited in support of the mirror neuron theory of action understanding, one of the most influential examples of embodied cognition theories. In the final part, we analyze the claim that mirror neurons subserve action understanding by mapping visual representations of observed actions on motor representations, trying to clarify in what sense the representations carried by these neurons can be claimed motor.

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