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Could embodied simulation be a by-product of emotion perception?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2010

Julian Kiverstein  and
Edoardo Zamuner
Julian Kiverstein
Affiliation:
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 7PU, Scotland, United Kingdom. [email protected]://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/people/research-staff/julian-kiverstein.html
Edoardo Zamuner
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, LaTrobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia. [email protected]://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/staff/edo.html
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Abstract

The SIMS model claims that it is by means of an embodied simulation that we determine the meaning of an observed smile. This suggests that crucial interpretative work is done in the mapping that takes us from a perceived smile to the activation of one's own facial musculature. How is this mapping achieved? Might it depend upon a prior interpretation arrived at on the basis of perceptual and contextual information?

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 6 , December 2010 , pp. 449
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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