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Hominin infant decentration hypothesis: Mirror neurons system adapted to subserve mother-centered participation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Stein Braten
Stein Braten*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Blindern, N-0317Oslo, Norway
*
stein.braten@sosiologi.uio.no
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Abstract:

Falk's hominin mother-infant model presupposes an emerging infant capacity to perceive and learn from afforded gestures and vocalizations. Unlike back-riding offspring of other primates, who were in no need to decenter their own body-centered perspective, a mirror neurons system may have been adapted in hominin infants to subserve the kind of (m)other-centered mirroring we now see manifested by human infants soon after birth.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 508 - 509
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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