Homuncular mirrors: misunderstanding causality in embodied cognition

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Mikulan, Ezequiel Pablo; Reynaldo, Lucila María; Ibañez, Agustin Mariano
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2014
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Emerging theories on embodied cognition have caused high expectations, ambitious promises, and strong controversies. Several criticisms have been explained elsewhere (Mahon and Caramazza, 2008; Cardona et al., 2014) and will not be discussed further here. In this paper, we will focus on a specific explanatory strategy frequently assessed by the radical embodied cognition approaches: the use of homuncular explanations for the explicit (or implicit) attribution of causal roles in the comprehension of language understanding. We first present this criticism regarding a prototypical example: the mirror neuron system (MNS) (Rizzolatti and Craighero, 2004; Iacoboni and Dapretto, 2006) in the field of language understanding and then extend our conclusions to other programs of embodied cognition. Here we discuss the radical claims that propose the MNS as the putative mechanism for multiple cognitive and social psychology constructs (e.g., Gallese, 2008; Cattaneo and Rizzolatti, 2009; Iacoboni, 2009) and the critical role of the MNS in language understanding (Heyes, 2010a; Hickok, 2013).
Fil: Mikulan, Ezequiel Pablo. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva. Laboratorio de Psicología Experimental y Neurociencia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Reynaldo, Lucila María. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva. Laboratorio de Psicología Experimental y Neurociencia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Ibáñez Barassi, Agustín Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva. Laboratorio de Psicología Experimental y Neurociencia; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Universidad Autónoma del Caribe; Colombia
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Embodied Cognition
Mirror Neuron System
Networks
Language Understanding
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Homuncular mirrors: misunderstanding causality in embodied cognition
title Homuncular mirrors: misunderstanding causality in embodied cognition
spellingShingle Homuncular mirrors: misunderstanding causality in embodied cognition
Mikulan, Ezequiel Pablo
Embodied Cognition
Mirror Neuron System
Networks
Language Understanding
title_short Homuncular mirrors: misunderstanding causality in embodied cognition
title_full Homuncular mirrors: misunderstanding causality in embodied cognition
title_fullStr Homuncular mirrors: misunderstanding causality in embodied cognition
title_full_unstemmed Homuncular mirrors: misunderstanding causality in embodied cognition
title_sort Homuncular mirrors: misunderstanding causality in embodied cognition
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Mikulan, Ezequiel Pablo
Reynaldo, Lucila María
Ibañez, Agustin Mariano
author Mikulan, Ezequiel Pablo
author_facet Mikulan, Ezequiel Pablo
Reynaldo, Lucila María
Ibañez, Agustin Mariano
author_role author
author2 Reynaldo, Lucila María
Ibañez, Agustin Mariano
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Embodied Cognition
Mirror Neuron System
Networks
Language Understanding
topic Embodied Cognition
Mirror Neuron System
Networks
Language Understanding
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Emerging theories on embodied cognition have caused high expectations, ambitious promises, and strong controversies. Several criticisms have been explained elsewhere (Mahon and Caramazza, 2008; Cardona et al., 2014) and will not be discussed further here. In this paper, we will focus on a specific explanatory strategy frequently assessed by the radical embodied cognition approaches: the use of homuncular explanations for the explicit (or implicit) attribution of causal roles in the comprehension of language understanding. We first present this criticism regarding a prototypical example: the mirror neuron system (MNS) (Rizzolatti and Craighero, 2004; Iacoboni and Dapretto, 2006) in the field of language understanding and then extend our conclusions to other programs of embodied cognition. Here we discuss the radical claims that propose the MNS as the putative mechanism for multiple cognitive and social psychology constructs (e.g., Gallese, 2008; Cattaneo and Rizzolatti, 2009; Iacoboni, 2009) and the critical role of the MNS in language understanding (Heyes, 2010a; Hickok, 2013).
Fil: Mikulan, Ezequiel Pablo. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva. Laboratorio de Psicología Experimental y Neurociencia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Reynaldo, Lucila María. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva. Laboratorio de Psicología Experimental y Neurociencia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Ibáñez Barassi, Agustín Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva. Laboratorio de Psicología Experimental y Neurociencia; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Universidad Autónoma del Caribe; Colombia
description Emerging theories on embodied cognition have caused high expectations, ambitious promises, and strong controversies. Several criticisms have been explained elsewhere (Mahon and Caramazza, 2008; Cardona et al., 2014) and will not be discussed further here. In this paper, we will focus on a specific explanatory strategy frequently assessed by the radical embodied cognition approaches: the use of homuncular explanations for the explicit (or implicit) attribution of causal roles in the comprehension of language understanding. We first present this criticism regarding a prototypical example: the mirror neuron system (MNS) (Rizzolatti and Craighero, 2004; Iacoboni and Dapretto, 2006) in the field of language understanding and then extend our conclusions to other programs of embodied cognition. Here we discuss the radical claims that propose the MNS as the putative mechanism for multiple cognitive and social psychology constructs (e.g., Gallese, 2008; Cattaneo and Rizzolatti, 2009; Iacoboni, 2009) and the critical role of the MNS in language understanding (Heyes, 2010a; Hickok, 2013).
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