Ok, I just discovered that we can easily add surveys to the blog, so let's try it out for fun. How do people feel about mirror neurons and speech perception? Take the survey in the right column of the blog.
Depends on how many IP addresses you can log on from. :-) Once you vote on a given computer it will not show you the response options anymore from that IP address, only the current vote tally.
Well, I've just voted! Tash Postle, one of my PhD students, had a systematic look at this mirror neuron stuff and showed some of her results in a poster at SFN. Poster available at: http://www.cmr.uq.edu.au/~greig/_files/posters/Postle_SFN07.pdf
Thanks Greig for your vote and the link to the poster. Nice (non-)result. I agree that there is no compelling evidence for a somatotopically organized semantics. Besides the imaging data, there is also no evidence that damage to these frontal areas produces somato-selective deficits in comprehension.
Greg Hickok is Professor of Cognitive Sciences, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at UC Irvine. DavidPoeppel, after several years as Professor of Linguistics and Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, is now Professor of Psychology at NYU. Hickok and Poeppel first crossed paths in 1991 at MIT in the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience where Hickok was a post doc, and Poeppel a grad student. Meeting up again a few years later at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting in San Francisco, they began a collaboration aimed at developing an integrated model of the functional anatomy of language. Research in both the Hickok and Poeppel labs is supported by NIDCD.
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How many times can we vote?
Depends on how many IP addresses you can log on from. :-) Once you vote on a given computer it will not show you the response options anymore from that IP address, only the current vote tally.
Well, I've just voted! Tash Postle, one of my PhD students, had a systematic look at this mirror neuron stuff and showed some of her results in a poster at SFN. Poster available at: http://www.cmr.uq.edu.au/~greig/_files/posters/Postle_SFN07.pdf
No guessing my view on this issue...
Thanks Greig for your vote and the link to the poster. Nice (non-)result. I agree that there is no compelling evidence for a somatotopically organized semantics. Besides the imaging data, there is also no evidence that damage to these frontal areas produces somato-selective deficits in comprehension.
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