Mirror Neuron Systems

• What Is Imitation?.- Unifying Social Cognition.- Reflections on the Mirror Neuron System: Their Evolutionary Functions Beyond Motor Representation.- Developmental Aspects.- The Neurophysiology of Early Motor Resonance.- The Rational Continuum of Human Imitation.- Neural Basis.- From Embodied Representation to Co-regulation.- The Problem of Other Minds Is Not a Problem: Mirror Neurons and Intersubjectivity.- Hierarchically Organized Mirroring Processes in Social Cognition: The Functional Neuroanatomy of Empathy.- Relationship to Cognitive Processes.- Mirror Neurons and the Neural Exploitation Hypothesis: From Embodied Simulation to Social Cognition.- From Imitation to Reciprocation and Mutual Recognition.- Automatic and Controlled Processing within the Mirror Neuron System.- Embodied Perspective on Emotion-Cognition Interactions.- Disorders of Mirroring.- The Role of Mirror Neuron Dysfunction in Autism.- Synaesthesia for Pain: Feeling Pain with Another.- Alternative Views.- Mirroring, Mindreading, and Simulation.- Does the Mirror Neuron System and Its Impairment Explain Human Imitation and Autism?.- Neural Simulation and Social Cognition.

From the reviews: "Mirror Neuron Systems: The Role of Mirroring Processes in Social Cognition can be viewed as evolving from this area of specialization, being an anthology of explanations for the relation between mirror neuron locations and functions and some main concepts from social cognition. ... This book will serve scholars researching the topic of mirror neurons as new findings emerge and the theoretical understandings mature. The book also serves as a useful addition to graduate courses that cover social cognitive neuroscience." (Francis C. Staskon, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 54 (35), 2009)