Isomorphism and the Mirror Neuron System (original) (raw)

This is an invited commentary article on Eagle M.N. & Wakefield J.C., Gestalt Psychology and the Mirror Neuron Discovery (2007). It aims at specifying the extent to which the Gestalt Psychology is consistent with the Mind-Reading Theory based on the discovery of Mirror Neurons System and its interpretation in terms of the Embodied Simulation theory. It is argued that the Gestaltist tenet that the intersubjective behaviour understanding has a publicly accessible perceptual foundation does share the refusal of the Theory-Theory, but also that it rejects the representationalism, be it embodied or not.