Colloqui
Classe di Scienze
ore 15.00
Scuola Normale
Superiore
Pisa
(Sala
Stemmi)
Giacomo
Rizzolatti
Università
di Parma
Terrà un
seminario dal titolo:
“Understanding
actions, intentions, and emotions of others”
Abstract:
Mirror
neurons are a set of neurons that discharge both when the monkey executes a
specific motor act and when it observes another individual doing a similar act.
In the first part of my talk, I will review the basic functional properties of
monkey frontal mirror neurons. I will describe first their motor properties
showing that they code the goal of a motor act. I will review then their visual
properties and present evidence that mirror neurons represent a mechanism that
allows a direct understanding of what the agent is doing. Mirror mechanism also
exists in humans. I will present the data proving it will show
evidence that, although there are other mechanisms through which one can
understand the behavior of others,
the mirror mechanism is the only one that allows understanding others “from the
inside” providing the observer with a “first-person” person grasp of others’
motor goals, intentions and emotions. I will conclude discussing the
relationship between autism deficits and damage to the mirror mechanism. I will
show that while children with autism understand the what of an observed motor
act, they fail to recognize the why behind it. Because of these impairments,
children with autism lack experiential understanding of others and rely on
external factors in their behavior.
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