From: Derek Gatherer (d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 17 May 2006 - 14:12:51 GMT
Hello stranger! What is this, a class reunion? Next thing, we'll
have Aaron Lynch turning up again!!
At 14:44 17/05/2006, you wrote:
>Hello Derek,
>
> >Nobody knows where instincts are encoded
> >(presumably in the brain somewhere),
>
>Though the term 'instincts' is a grab-bag for lumping together
>unknowns, the work on mirror-neurons suggest a physical site for at
>least one subset of the class 'instinct'.
>
>We also know a significant subset of those exhibiting autism, a
>behavioral disfunction of one's ability to mimic (among other
>things), also exhibit lower levels of activity in the brain areas
>containing mirror-neurons.
>
>Mark
>
>
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