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Mirror Neurons in the Context Of Cognitive Mapping
There is much controversy with regard to the degree to which vision is tied to cognition, especially when considering the way that mirror neurons can affect the way a person thinks and can influence the respective individual to have a particular view of the surrounding environment. The contemporary society has a very complex understanding of how the visual system works and yet people have trouble comprehending the exact links between the system and the way that people actually perceive the things they see. The fact that individuals store and decode information as a consequence of making use of the visual system is particularly intriguing when considering the idea or mirror neurons.
Through cognitive mapping, the brain interprets information about a person's environment and uses this respective information to influence the individual to act. The person basically takes information and construes a meaning concerning it. When considering mirror neurons, an individual duplicates the activity of these respective neurons and comes to match the agent's movements to the point where he or she experiences them firsthand. The neurons also make it possible for the person to have a better understanding of the agent's thinking. In a way this...
Mirror neurons provide information that is cognitively mapped and is eventually interpreted with the purpose of making the person provide a response to the situation.
To a certain degree, mirror neurons are designed to enable the individual to take on first person experiences as a consequence of observing another person. They have been associated with people's ability to imitate others and even to the way that society evolved. The possibility to develop a cognitive map as a consequence of interpreting a diverse range of behaviors is largely owed to mirror neurons (Goertzel & Wang, 122). Throughout history people have accumulated information and have been able to evolve as a result of being able to identify ideas expressed by others through various methods. A cognitive system practically provides the tools for learning and assigning meaning to situations. In some cases the individual uses this meaning to replicate feelings experienced by the agent. Mirror neurons assigns values to information and assist in having the individual goes through experiences that are not actually relevant to him or her.
Cognitive mapping is often associated with knowledge, as many have difficulty understanding how it is connected to the visual…
Works cited:
Taylor, M. "The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination," (Oxford University Press, USA, 2 Apr 2013)
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