Re: [FRIAM] Mirror Neurons & Intersubjective Reality

EricS wrote: Here is one of several research stories that Elwyn Berlekamp told to me during a visit to SFI many years ago in which I was his host (the closest I will ever come to the experience of those who hosted Erdos). We were just visited by an old friend of Mary's who has been

Re: [FRIAM] Mirror Neurons & Intersubjective Reality

] Mirror Neurons & Intersubjective Reality A 60 second search found this behind a paywall: William G Chase and Herbert A Simon. 1973. Perception in chess. Cognitive psychology 4(1):55–81. The abstract sounds right, but there were only three subjects in the study. -- rec -- On

Re: [FRIAM] Mirror Neurons & Intersubjective Reality

I knew Bill Chase. He was a new assistant professor in the psych department when I was a graduate student. Tragically he died young. During his recruitment talk he said that people can remember letter sequences by creating phrases. "For instance, they might remember 'BFG' by using the phrase

Re: [FRIAM] Mirror Neurons & Intersubjective Reality

A 60 second search found this behind a paywall: William G Chase and Herbert A Simon. 1973. Perception in chess. Cognitive psychology 4(1):55–81. The abstract sounds right, but there were only three subjects in the study. -- rec -- On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 6:21 AM David Eric Smith wrote: >

Re: [FRIAM] Mirror Neurons & Intersubjective Reality

Just getting to this one, days late…. > On Nov 15, 2023, at 8:58 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > > I have not (yet) read this critically, the introduction just tweaked my > (confirmation biased) interests: > > https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-brain.html >

Re: [FRIAM] Mirror Neurons & Intersubjective Reality

Thanks for the links to the predictive coding paper and the mirror mech survey. What continues to drive my skepticism, even for the weaker "mirror mechanism" hypothesis is stated well in a perspective on the recent brain cell atlas: "There is no single prototypical human; a spectrum of

[FRIAM] Mirror Neurons & Intersubjective Reality

I have not (yet) read this critically, the introduction just tweaked my (confirmation biased) interests: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-brain.html When I first encountered the Mirror Neuron research