Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Mirror neurons system – Past, present, and future of a discovery
5. The neural correlates of action understanding in non-human primates 13
6. The mirror system in humans 37
7. II. Further developments in the study of mirror neurons system and interpretations of its functions
8. Is the human brain unique? 63
9. The co-evolution of language and working memory capacity in the human brain 77
10. Episodic action memory 89
11. The role of objects in imitation 103
12. The mirror system and joint action 117
13. Brain activation to passive observation of grasping actions 127
14. Mirror neurons and the self construct 137
15. Behavioral synchronization in human conversational interaction 153
16. Symmetry building and symmetry breaking in synchronized movement 165
17. III. Mirror neurons system and the evolution of brain, communication, and language
18. On the evolutionary origin of language 177
19. Mirror neurons, vocal imitation, and the evolution of particulate speech 209
20. Constitutive features of human dialogic interaction 231
21. Some features that make mirror neurons and human language faculty unique 251
22. Altercentric perception by infants and adults in dialogue 275
23. Visual attention and self-grooming behaviors among four-month-old infants 297
24. The role of mirror neurons in the ontogeny of speech 307
25. Mirror neurons’ registration of biological motion 317
26. Looking for neural answers to linguistic questions 325
27. Mirror neurons and cultural transmission 335
28. IV. Applications
29. Mirror neurons and the neural basis for learning by imitation: Computational modeling 345
30. Mirror neurons and feedback learning 355
31. A connectionist model which unifies the behavioral and the linguistic processes 365
32. Name index 379
33. Subject index 387