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Mirroring people : the new science of how we connect with others / Marco Iacoboni.
| Author/creator | Iacoboni, Marco |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. |
| Description | x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Monkey see. monkey do -- Neuro this! -- Brain surprises -- The fab four -- Mirrors in the brain -- I know what you are doing -- I know what you are thinking -- I can hear what you are doing -- Mirroring tool use -- I know that you are copying me -- 2. Simon says -- Copycat cells -- Resonating bodies -- Do what I say, not what I do -- Harry Potter and Professor Snape -- Getting a grip on other minds -- 3. Grasping language -- Do you see what I am saying? -- Hand to mouth -- From brain mapping to brain zapping -- Body heat -- Chat rooms -- Mirroring speech and other sounds -- 4. See me, feel me -- Zidane's head-butt -- Humans or chameleons? -- Empathic mirrors -- I feel your pain -- Maternal empathy -- 5. Facing yourself -- Is it you or is it me? -- The mirror recognition test -- Another me -- Zapping the self -- Two sides of the same coin -- 6. Broken mirrors -- Baby mirrors -- The teen brain -- Imitation and autism -- The mirror neuron hypothesis of autism -- Broken mirroring -- Fixing the broken mirrors -- 7. Super mirrors and the wired brain -- Dark waves in the brain -- In the depth of the human brain -- The Jennifer Aniston cell -- In search of super mirror neurons -- 8. The bad and the ugly : violence and drug abuse -- The bad : the controversy about media violence -- Are we autonomous agents? : mirror neurons and free will -- The ugly : addiction and its relapse after quitting -- 9. Mirroring wanting and liking -- The neuroscience of buying -- The one-nighter : "instant science" and the Super Bowl -- Mirroring ads -- The effects of negative ads -- 10. Neuropolitics -- Theories of political attitudes -- Mirroring and the political junkie brain -- Brain politics -- 11. Existential neuroscience and society -- Mirror cells between us -- The problem of intersubjectivity -- A new existentialism -- Neuroscience and society. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2007047322 |
| ISBN | 9780374210175 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0374210179 (hardcover : alk. paper) |