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POPSMirror Neuron - Almost everything you wanted to know Very interesting and educative read: Based on context, mirror neurons can distinguish intention. The activity of the observer’s mirror neurons is greatest for the neat scenario—almost double the amount in the messy one—because drinking is a more fundamental intention than cleaning up.
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POPSNew You By 2018 Therapeutic: Cloning for tissue replacement is already happening, as stem cells have successfully grown new heart tissues in patients. Researchers believe replacing muscle, bone, skin; even neurons, teeth, eyes, and other organs could be in beginning stages by 2018. Augmentation: Procedures expected to be in place by as early as 2015 include improved memory recall, simultaneous language translation, long range and microscopic vision on demand, wide spectrum hearing, distinctive voice projection, and stronger muscles. And by mid-to-late-2020s, “nanobots” monitoring each of our cells could keep us ageless and forever healthy. Designed Evolution: These could include memory, intelligence, speed, agility, and other behavioral and physical attributes. Eliminating undesired genes that might pre-dispose a child to cancer, heart disease or alcoholism could be possible by about 2015.
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POPSWhen can empathy move us to action? And so cognitive empathy alone is not enough. We also need what Ekman calls "emotional empathy"—when you physically feel what other people feel, as though their emotions were contagious. This emotional contagion depends in large part on cells in the brain called mirror neurons, which fire when we sense another's emotional state, creating an echo of that state inside our own minds. Emotional empathy attunes us to another person's inner emotional world, a plus for a wide range of professions, from sales to nursing—not to mention for any parent or lover.
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POPSSpreading Moods Kathryn Britton at Positive Psychology News Daily discusses the importance of sharing positive moods to improve task performance.
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POPSMore on modelling the 'other' More I haven't had time to read, but which I want to get hold of, based on the comments on this page. And, of course, I want to track down the author of this comment, and the others who have replied to this blog. Does anyone else have the increasing problem of there being far too much to read and far too little time?
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POPSModelling the 'other' I haven't had time to read these references yet, but from the comments here, they look very valuable/interesting.
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POPSFolk psychology from mirror neurons I am not sure that I agree with some of the assertions in this blog, in that it appears to infer results which are more specific than the reasoning suggests (to me) but it is an interesting piece, and highlights some particularly interesting recent research. I'm really not sure about that graph, though. Personally, I think the two strands are not separate, with, at the very least, the causes and unintentional behaviour feeding in to the perception of the causal history. The "Enabling factors" is a catch all, and it appears to be missing any form of environmental interaction within the intentionality strand, but hey, I am just a techie :-)
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POPSmimesis an instructor i studied with some years ago would advise his students to watch a routine and perform the action in our heads as it would help in learning the movements - i wonder if this is the same mechanism.
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POPSEmpathy, Reith lecture Dr V S Ramachandran's Reith lecture series titled The Emerging Mind. He here explains that empathy is actually a physiological process as much of a psychological one.
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