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The Japanese journal of neuropsychology

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ArticleTitle Neuropsychology of understanding the others
Language J
AuthorList Yoshitaka Ohigashi
Affiliation Kyoto University International Center & Graduate School of Human and Envirionmental Studies
Publication Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 22 (1), 2-10, 2006
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Accepted
Abstract As for the neuropsychological central problem, it should be fundamentally important to study distinctively cognitive, conscious and cerebral representation for every neuropsychological phenomenon. It is impossible that self-consciousness understands directly consciousness of the others because conscious representation is "phenomenal transform" of the nervous system base of conscious representation (Edelman, 2004). On the other hand, about a nervous system base (C') of conscious representation, we could go through cognitive representations (expression, gaze, gesture, imitation, social recognition, speech and action), and the possibility of understanding of the others should be opened. In fact, "shared representation" system (Decety, 2003) supported by cerebral representation (superior temporal sulcus: STS, inferior parietal lobe, anterior cingulated gyrus), has been confirmed. But attention is necessary about the language because it could deceive conscious representation and must be most tricky among cognitive representations.
Keywords understanding of the others, neuropsychology, conscious representation, cognitive representation, cerebral representation

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