Comments on OnFiction: Reading as Mental Simulation

Thank you very much for this, Anatole Pierre. I wi...

2009-07-15T08:09:39.951-04:00

Thank you very much for this, Anatole Pierre. I will follow it up.

my shot at it (including ecological theory of perc...

2009-07-15T07:28:32.945-04:00

my shot at it (including ecological theory of perception, mirror neurons and Damasio's somatic marker)

It might be very interesting to start a collaboration on such topics.

http://padis2.uniroma1.it:81/ojs/index.php/cogphil/article/view/3053

Thank you, Allan, for this comment. Yes, I think t...

2009-03-17T05:27:00.000-04:00

Thank you, Allan, for this comment. Yes, I think this finding does link to mirror neurons, perhaps in the way you suggest, though the authors of the paper I review here, Speer et al., mention the research on mirror neurons only in passing.

Does this relate to the idea of mirror neurons? Wh...

2009-03-15T13:17:00.000-04:00

Does this relate to the idea of mirror neurons? Where we see something and can 'feel' or imagine how it might feel. Can we not read about something and do the same?