Inaugural Merson Neuroscience Lecture at QBI: Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti (Mirror Neurons)

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Date:	Thursday, 05 November 2009
Time:	5:00pm - 6:00pm
Room:	Auditorium Level 7
UQ Location:	Queensland Brain Institute (St Lucia)
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Description:	Title: `The Mirror mechanism: a neural mechanism to understand others` Speaker: Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti, Department of Neurosciences, Universita` Degli Studi Di Parma, Italy. Abstract We live in a word full of objects, sounds and movements. Among these stimuli, the actions of our conspecifics are particularly important for our survival. How do we understand the actions of others, their intentions and emotions? There is growing evidence that this capacity is largely based on a mechanism that directly transforms visual information on motor acts into a motor representation of the same acts. In my presentation I will review the properties of this mechanism (“mirror mechanism”) and discuss its implications for cognition. I will conclude discussing the relationship between the impairment of mirror mechanism and autism.
URL:	http://www.unipr.it/arpa/mirror/english/staff/rizzolat.htm
Event Category:	Seminars & workshops / Public lectures / Science/Medical /
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Name:	Mr Reeza Palamoodu Nazer
Phone:	66416
Email:	r.nazer@uq.edu.au
Org. Unit:	Queensland Brain Institute
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