The Neuroscience of Social Interaction: Decoding, Imitating, and Influencing the Actions of Others

ISBN-13: 9780198529262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 364 str.

Chris Frith

Opis

Human beings have the unique ability to mentalize, that is to perceive and communicate mental states such as beliefs and desires. One of the key problems in science is to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying mentalizing and to show how these mechanisms evolved. The Neuroscience of Social Interactions is an important first step in uncovering the biological mechanisms underlying social interactions--undoubtedly one of the major programs for neuroscience in the 21st century.

Recenzje

With their book, Frith and Wolpert have made an important contribution to the nascent field of social neuroscience by precisely defining a specific subtopic and emphasizing different perspectives . . . A decade from now there will most likely be a journal, society and annual meeting devoted to social neuroscience, but it is sill unclear how all of the research relevant to this topic will combine to form this new discipline. Organizing the extant literature on the neuroscience of social behaviour, as this volume has done, will help shape the growth of this emerging field.