ANT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mirror Neuron, Sense, Frontal Lobe
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The brain body neural loops that cause changes in emotional states. The localized neocortical and brain-body loops that shape awareness or consciousness of emotions: that is the feeling of having an emotion. Emotion: mediated attunements to surroundings, feelings, and thoughts. Right hemispheric projections to diencephalon associate body positions with interoception. Disagreement over whether mirror neurons are specialized by: Learned associations through interconnected, multimodal processing neural networks. Mirroring activity documented in neurons in monkeys (macaca mulata) during social observation of others feeding. So, we don"t know if they involve genetically specialized neurons or learning: dependent associations of visual and proprioceptive input patterns dependent associations of visual and proprioceptive input patterns. Hypothesis: for m. n evolved in adaptive systems of common ancestor we share w rhesus monkeys. Be specific about niche: help w survival/ reproductive success. Linguistic speech supporting manipulation of ongoing cooperative joint affection. Afferent sensory projections to primary neocortical areas: vision.
