Evidence for mirror systems in emotions

Bastiaansen, Jojanneke A.; Thioux, Marc; Keysers, Christian

doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0058

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“…Further research has suggested that similar systems of shared representation of self and other exist for perception of pain (Bernhardt & Singer, 2012;Fitzgibbon, Giummarra, Georgiou-Karistianis, Enticott, & Bradshaw, 2010), touch (Keysers, Kaas, & Gazzola, 2010;Schaefer, Heinze, & Rotte, 2012) and emotional processing (Bastiaansen, Thioux, & Keysers, 2009;Jabbi, Bastiaansen, & Keysers, 2008). While there is still considerable debate about exactly how these shared activations contribute towards the understanding of others (see the following reviews for three distinct accounts: Cook, Bird, Catmur, Press, & Heyes, 2014;Gallese, 2007;Kilner, Friston, & Frith, 2007), the involvement of neural systems involved in representing the bodily self in social cognition is now well established.…”

Section: Prejudice and The Bodily Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

Farmer

Maister

2017

Soc Just Res

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The self is one the most important concepts in social cognition and plays a crucial role in determining questions such as which social groups we view ourselves as belonging to and how we relate to others. In the past decade, the self has also become an important topic within cognitive neuroscience with an explosion in the number of studies seeking to understand how different aspects of the self are represented within the brain. In this paper, we first outline the recent research on the neurocognitive basis of the self and highlight a key distinction between two forms of self-representation. The first is the ''bodily'' self, which is thought to be the basis of subjective experience and is grounded in the processing of sensorimotor signals. The second is the ''conceptual'' self, which develops through our interactions of other and is formed of a rich network of associative and semantic information. We then investigate how both the bodily and conceptual self are related to social cognition with an emphasis on how self-representations are involved in the processing and creation of prejudice. We then highlight new research demonstrating that the bodily and conceptual self are both malleable and that this malleability can be harnessed in order to achieve a reduction in social prejudice. In particular, we will outline strong evidence that modulating people's perceptions of the bodily self can lead to changes in attitudes at the conceptual level. We will highlight a series of studies demonstrating that social attitudes towards various social out-groups (e.g. racial groups) can lead to a reduction in prejudice towards that group. Finally, we seek to place these findings in a broader social context by considering how innovations in virtual reality technology can allow experiences of taking on another's identity are likely to become both more commonplace and more convincing in the future and the various opportunities and risks associated with using such technology to reduce prejudice.

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Section: Prejudice and The Bodily Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

Farmer

Maister

2017

Soc Just Res

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“…(Bastiaansen, Thioux, & Keysers, 2009;Lestou, Pollick, & Kourtzi, 2008;Van den Stock, et al, 2011); Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS) (Grèzes, Fonlupt, Bertenthal, Delon-Martin, Segebarth, & Decety, 2001;Grossman, Donnelly, Price, Pickens, Morgan, Neighbor, et al, 2000;Herrington, Nymberg, & Schultz, 2011;Lestou, Pollick, & Kourtzi, 2008;Penton, Fernandez, Leon, Garcia, Iturria-Medina, et al 2010); Medial Temporal/Medial Superior Temporal Areas (MT/MST), ~ V3 and V 5 (BA 18,19) (Grossman, et al, 2000;Kourtzi & Kanwisher, 2000;Senior, et al, 2000;; Inferior Parietal Gyrus/Lobule (BA 39/40) (Bastiaansen, Thioux, & Keysers, 2009); Motor Cortex (BA 4) (Urgesi, Moro, Candidi, & Aglioti, Gyrus/Lobule (BA 39/40) ; Occipitotemporal Cortex (BA37), ~ "Extrastriate Body Area" (EBA) (Calvo-Merino, Urgesi, Orgs, Aglioti, & Haggard, 2010). …”

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“…Neuroimaging studies have shown that understanding the emotions of others engages brain regions normally involved in experiencing the same emotion (Bastiaansen, Thioux, & Keysers, 2009;Wicker, Keysers, Plailly, Royet, Gallese, & Rizzolatti, 2003;Keysers, Kaas, & Gazzola, 2010). Van den Stock, Tamietto, Sorger, Pichon, Grèzes, & de Gelder (2011) showed that the perception of emotion expressed through body actions is related with activity in the superior temporal sulcus (STS), precuneus, and geniculate nucleus.…”

Section: Emotion Perception In Body and Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Facial emotional expressions (Little, Jones, & Debruine, 2011;Adolphs, 2002;Bastiaansen, Thioux, & Keysers, 2009) and static body postures (de Gelder, 2009;Pichon, de Gelder, & Grèzes, 2008) have received most attention as sources of emotional information. But it has also been shown that humans are able to recognize emotional expression from movement information, even when it is very limited, such as in point light displays (Pollick, Lestou, Ryu, & Cho, 2002).…”

Section: Emotion Perception In Body and Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Dance as a subject for empirical aesthetics.

Christensen¹,

Calvo-Merino²

2013

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. There may be minor differences in this draft with respect to the published version of the paper. Both authors contributed to the paper equally. Permanent repository link Dance as a subject for empirical aestheticsWe are grateful to Marcos Nadal for very useful comments and discussions on previous drafts of the paper and to dancers and choreographers (Tom Sapsford and MavinKhoo) for their help and assistance during some of the projects described throughout this paper. AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to highlight the possibilities that research on dance appreciation offers empirical aesthetics, as well as the challenges it poses. Behavioral and neuroimaging approaches have, to date, mainly focused on the perception and recognition of human body movement and structure. A small number of studies, nonetheless, have explicitly taken the basic research on the perceptual, emotional and cognitive processes engaged during movement observation, together with their neural concomitants, as a starting point to understand the aesthetic experience triggered by the observation of a dance. We provide an overview of these studies and, thereafter, point out avenues for future research on dance appreciation within the scope of empirical aesthetics. We also note some methodological and conceptual issues that should be taken into account in the design of empirical studies of the aesthetic appreciation of dance, including dance theory scholarship and humanistic approaches to dance practice.Finally, we describe how common movement features of dance styles around the world suggest that humans may be endowed with an evolved cognitive ability to appreciate and to be aesthetically moved by dance.

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“…Social psychologists suggest that these forms of synchronous behaviour, far from being mere epiphenomena, play an important social role (van Baaren et al 2009). Bastiaansen et al (2009) catalogue a variety of phenomena in which perceptual, sensory and emotional mirroring occur between people. Bastiaansen et al argue that such capacities have important social functions.…”

Section: Recent Developments In the Evidence (A) High-fidelity Transmmentioning

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Imitation as an inheritance system

Shea

2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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What is the evolutionary significance of the various mechanisms of imitation, emulation and social learning found in humans and other animals? This paper presents an advance in the theoretical resources for addressing that question, in the light of which standard approaches from the cultural evolution literature should be refocused. The central question is whether humans have an imitationbased inheritance system-a mechanism that has the evolutionary function of transmitting behavioural phenotypes reliably down the generations. To have the evolutionary power of an inheritance system, an imitiation-based mechanism must meet a range of demanding requirements. The paper goes on to review the evidence for and against the hypothesis that there is indeed an imitation-based inheritance system in humans.

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Evidence for mirror systems in emotions

Cited by 311 publications

References 153 publications

Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

Dance as a subject for empirical aesthetics.

Imitation as an inheritance system

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