RE: RS

From: Derek Gatherer (d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 17 May 2006 - 14:12:51 GMT

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    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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