The Neuroscience of Social Interaction : Decoding, imitating, and influencing the actions of others / edited by Christopher D. Frith and Daniel M. Wolpert. -- Oxford Univ. Pr., 2003

59.597/N494g

Contents:

Biological motion: decoding social signals

1. Electrophysiology and brain imaging of biological motion  1

2. Teleological and referential understanding of action in infancy  23

3. Development and neurophysiology of mentalizing  45

4. Mathematical modelling of animate and intentional motion  77

Mirror neurons: imitating the behaviour of others

5. What imitation tells us about social cognitionL a rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience  109

6. Action feneration and action perception in imitation: an instance of the ideomotor principle  131

7. The manifold nature of interpersonal relationsL the quest for a common mechanism  159

8. Imitation as behaviour parsing  183

9. Computational approaches to motor learing by imitation  199

Mentalizing: closing the communication loop

10. Detecting agents  219

11. Facial expressions, their communicatory functions and neuro-cogntive substrates  241

12. Models of dyadic social interaction  265

13. Dressing the mind properly for the game  283

14 A unifying computational framework for motor control and social interaction  305