Talking Brains: A chink in the mirror neuron armor?

Thursday, February 25, 2010

A chink in the mirror neuron armor?

It is yet to slow the pace of mirror neuron speculation, but at least a reference to my "Eight Problems" paper, as well as this blog, made it on the Mirror Neuron Wikipedia page (no it wasn't me who added it). It actually lists the 8 problems in the "Criticism" (singular, I note) section which is right below the section which details how mirror neurons explain understanding intentions, empathy, language, autism, theory of mind, and gender differences -- apparently the female mirror system is more robust than the male mirror neuron system. Ugh.

1 comment:

The Vlad said...: there is another section called "Doubts on mirror neurons" also. i too didn't write that. but that's would wikis are good for. nothing stopping us except laziness.; February 27, 2010 at 6:30 AM

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Greg Hickok is Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine, Editor-in-Chief of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, and author of The Myth of Mirror Neurons. David Poeppel, 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.