There are 35 networks in the brain that do these sort of different emotional things or is it kind of they blend into each other. You find actually for people in the medical world they activate these shared circuits for empathy. Affect sharing much less than other people. Right. It is part of and it's adaptive. Understanding how other people are feeling things. But we don't want to go too far because we're not the same as them. Oh wow. I literally watched it on Castle Rock last night. There was this TV show Stephen King based TV show. And honestly they were all about mirror neurons. They actually used that term. That's funny. For him it was just psychic powers but
Brains are important things; they're where thinking happens. Or are they? The theory of "embodied cognition" posits that it's better to think of thinking as something that takes place in the body as a whole, not just in the cells of the brain. In some sense this is trivially true; our brains interact with the rest of our bodies, taking in signals and giving back instructions. But it seems bold to situate important elements of cognition itself in the actual non-brain parts of the body. Lisa Aziz-Zadeh is a psychologist and neuroscientist who uses imaging technologies to study how different parts of the brain and body are involved in different cognitive tasks. We talk a lot about mirror neurons, those brain cells that light up both when we perform an action ourselves and when we see someone else performing the action. Understanding how these cells work could be key to a better view of empathy and interpersonal interactions. Lisa Aziz-Zadeh is an Associate Professor in the Brain and Creativity Institute and the Department of Occupational Science at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA, and has also done research at the University of Parma and the University of California, Berkeley. Home page USC profile Lab home page Google Scholar Talk on Brain and Body
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