A mass assembly of associative mechanisms: a dynamical systems account of natural social interaction

Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Apr;37(2):198. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13002264.

Abstract

The target article offers a negative, eliminativist thesis, dissolving the specialness of mirroring processes into a solution of associative mechanisms. We support the authors' project enthusiastically. What they are currently missing, we argue, is a positive, generative thesis about associative learning mechanisms and how they might give way to the complex, multimodal coordination that naturally arises in social interaction.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biological Evolution*
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Learning / physiology*
  • Mirror Neurons / physiology*
  • Social Perception*