Seminario

The mirror brain: past, present, and future

1 dicembre 2022
Orario di inizio 
16:00
Online
Organizzato da: 
Dottorato in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, CIMeC
Destinatari: 
Alumni UniTrento
Professionisti del settore
Comunità universitaria
Dipendenti UniTrento
Partecipazione: 
Ingresso libero
Online
Online su prenotazione
Email per prenotazione: 
Scadenza prenotazioni: 
30 novembre 2022, 23:59
Referente: 
Chiara Pepe, Alexander Eperon, Davide Cortinovis
+39 0464 808617
Speaker: 
Giacomo Rizzolatti, professore emerito, Università di Parma

Abstract

Mirror mechanism is a basic mechanism that transforms sensory representations into a motor format. In the first part of my talk I will describe the functions of the mirror mechanism that is located in the parieto-fontal network of the macaque monkey. I will present then human data on the same network discussing the specific way in which the mirror mechanism enables us to understand others. This mechanism mediates what, with Corrado Sinigaglia, I named “understanding others from inside”. In the third part of my talk I will discuss the role of the mirror mechanism in understanding the basic Darwinian emotions and the subtle emotional states that Daniel Stern called “vitality forms”. I will conclude discussing my recent data on emotions obtained with stereo EEG.