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Zusatztext This area of research is both extremely interesting with deep implications for neuroscience, and at the same time, it generates intense debate and controversy. [New Frontiers in Mirror Neurons Research] aims to discuss this subject matter in great detail and provide a varietyof opinions and viewpoints. It does so with remarkable success. Informationen zum Autor Pierfrancesco Ferrari is Associate Professor at the University of Parma, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland, USA. Ferrari's current research focuses on the functional role and development of parietal and premotor cortical functions in relation to social cognitive processes in human and nonhuman primates. From 2007 to 2008, Ferrari served as Adjunct Scientist at the NIH, Bethesda, USA, conducting research on cortical development in relation to cognitive functions in macaque monkeys. Together with Giacomo Rizzolatti he is Director of the International School of Neurosciences "Sir John Eccles ", at the Ettore Majorana Centre in Erice, Italy. Giacomo Rizzolatti has been President of the European Brain Behavior Society and Italian Society for Neuroscience. He is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons. His main research focus has been the role of the motor cortex in higher cognitive functions. He is member of Accademia dei Lincei, Académie des Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of several prizes: "Golgi Prize for Physiology", "George Miller Award", "Grawemeyer Prize ", Price of Asturias Prize for Science and Technology " Prix J.L. Signoret in Neuropsychologie " from the IPSEN Fondation, and the "Brain Prize from Lundbeck Foundation ". Klappentext The discovery of mirror neurons has been a revolution in neuroscience and psychology. Nevertheless, because of their profound impact in life sciences, mirror neurons still raise debates about their origins and functions.This book offers a comprehensive and state of the art overview of the latest advances in mirror neurons research Zusammenfassung The discovery of mirror neurons has been a revolution in neuroscience and psychology. Nevertheless, because of their profound impact in life sciences, mirror neurons still raise debates about their origins and functions.This book offers a comprehensive and state of the art overview of the latest advances in mirror neurons research Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1. Basic findings and concepts in action-perception theory 1: Stefano Rozzi: The neuroanatomy of the mirror neuron system 2: Leonardo Fogassi and Luca Bonini: The role of mirror neurons in goal coding and intention understanding 3: Jörn K. Pomper, Dan Arnstein, Vittorio Caggiano, Martin Giese, and Peter Thier: New properties of F5 Mirror Neurons and their implications for response selection 4: Riitta Hari: MEG studies in action observation 5: Kristina Grigaityte and Marco Iacoboni: How to study the mirror neuron system with functional MRI: challenges and solutions Section 2. Functional properties and evolution 6: Lucia Maria Sacheli, Salvatore Maria Aglioti,and Matteo Candidi: Neural underpinnings of anticipatory action simulation and perception in expert brains 7: Guy A. Orban: The mirror system in human and non-human primates: comparative functional imaging studies suggest multiple systems 8: Maurizio Gentilucci, Doriana De Marco, and Elisa De Stefani: On Gesture and Speech 9: Jonathan F. Prather, and Richard Mooney: Mirror Neurons in the Songbird Brain:A Neural Interface for Learned Vocal Communication 10: Simone Schütz-Bosbach and Wolfgang Prinz: Mirrors match minds 11: Antonella Tramacere, Pier F. Ferrari, and Atsushi Iriki: Epigenetic regulation of mirror neurons' development and related evolutionary hypotheses Section 3. Development 12: James J. M. Kilner: Relating the ontogeny and function of mirror neurons to...
