Predicting Intentions of a Familiar Significant Other Beyond the Mirror Neuron System.

ABSTRACT: Inferring intentions of others is one of the most intriguing issues in interpersonal interaction. Theories of embodied cognition and simulation suggest that this mechanism takes place through a direct and automatic matching process that occurs between an observed action and past actions. This process occurs via the reactivation of past self-related sensorimotor experiences within the inferior frontoparietal network (including the mirror neuron system, MNS). The working model is that the anticipatory representations of others' behaviors require internal predictive models of actions formed from pre-established, shared representations between the observer and the actor. This model suggests that observers should be better at predicting intentions performed by a familiar actor, rather than a st

SUBMITTER: Cacioppo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5574908 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature