The Role of the Human Mirror Neuron System in Supporting Communication in a Digital World
Humans use both verbal and non-verbal communication to interact with others and their environment and increasingly these interactions are occurring in a digital medium. Whether live or digital, learning to communicate requires overcoming the correspondence problem: There is no direct mapping, or cor...
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doaj-4392716875f648ef8eba5c2d573019d82020-11-25T00:09:20ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782017-05-01810.3389/fpsyg.2017.00698216220The Role of the Human Mirror Neuron System in Supporting Communication in a Digital WorldKelly Dickerson0Peter Gerhardstein1Alecia Moser2U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Human Research and Engineering, AberdeenMD, USADepartment of Psychology, Binghamton University, BinghamtonNY, USADepartment of Psychology, Binghamton University, BinghamtonNY, USAHumans use both verbal and non-verbal communication to interact with others and their environment and increasingly these interactions are occurring in a digital medium. Whether live or digital, learning to communicate requires overcoming the correspondence problem: There is no direct mapping, or correspondence between perceived and self-produced signals. Reconciliation of the differences between perceived and produced actions, including linguistic actions, is difficult and requires integration across multiple modalities and neuro-cognitive networks. Recent work on the neural substrates of social learning suggests that there may be a common mechanism underlying the perception-production cycle for verbal and non-verbal communication. The purpose of this paper is to review evidence supporting the link between verbal and non-verbal communications, and to extend the hMNS literature by proposing that recent advances in communication technology, which at times have had deleterious effects on behavioral and perceptual performance, may disrupt the success of the hMNS in supporting social interactions because these technologies are virtual and spatiotemporal distributed nature.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00698/fullmirror neuronsimitationscreen-based communicationcorrespondence problemexaptationembodied cognition |
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The Role of the Human Mirror Neuron System in Supporting Communication in a Digital World |
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The Role of the Human Mirror Neuron System in Supporting Communication in a Digital World |
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The Role of the Human Mirror Neuron System in Supporting Communication in a Digital World |
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The Role of the Human Mirror Neuron System in Supporting Communication in a Digital World |
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Humans use both verbal and non-verbal communication to interact with others and their environment and increasingly these interactions are occurring in a digital medium. Whether live or digital, learning to communicate requires overcoming the correspondence problem: There is no direct mapping, or correspondence between perceived and self-produced signals. Reconciliation of the differences between perceived and produced actions, including linguistic actions, is difficult and requires integration across multiple modalities and neuro-cognitive networks. Recent work on the neural substrates of social learning suggests that there may be a common mechanism underlying the perception-production cycle for verbal and non-verbal communication. The purpose of this paper is to review evidence supporting the link between verbal and non-verbal communications, and to extend the hMNS literature by proposing that recent advances in communication technology, which at times have had deleterious effects on behavioral and perceptual performance, may disrupt the success of the hMNS in supporting social interactions because these technologies are virtual and spatiotemporal distributed nature. |
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mirror neurons imitation screen-based communication correspondence problem exaptation embodied cognition |
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