Mirroring Brains: How We Understand Others from the Inside

ISBN-13: 9780198871705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 344 str.

Full Profe Corrado (Full Professor in Philosophy of Science

O autorze

Giacomo Rizzolatti is Director of URT Parma at the CNR Neuroscience Institute. He is renowned for the discovery of mirror neurons and known worldwide for his ground-breaking studies of the cognitive functions of the motor system. He is a member of Academia Europaea, of Accademia dei Lincei, and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the French Academy of Science and of the Royal Society. He is recipient of the Golgi Prize for Physiology, the George Miller Award of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and the Brain Prize Lundbeck Foundation Award. Corrado Sinigaglia is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Milan. He is internationally known for his efforts to integrate the philosophy of mind with cognitive neuroscience. His research currently focusses on the role of motor processes and representations in making sense of self and others. He is the author (with G. Rizzolatti) of the book Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience (Oxford University Press 2008) as well as many scientific and philosophical articles.