id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_hwptdgsggza6jeaek3gujntsoy Adam Waytz Two Mechanisms for Simulating Other Minds 2011 4 .pdf application/pdf 3351 410 45 same current mental state as that of another person, and has been linked recently to brain regions that ''mirror'' the experiential In contrast, self-projection involves imagining oneself in the same situation as another person, predicting one's processes, here we describe the conceptual and empirical reasons to distinguish between self-projection and mirroring and suggest the unique role each plays in understanding others. mentalizing, theory of mind, simulation, self-projection, mirror system humans can use an important source of understanding the internal experience of others: their own minds. people use themselves to understand others' mental states, theoretical discussions have tended to conflate two distinct types of Perceivers can understand others by mirroring their experience, vicariously experiencing another person's mental states. Observing another person in pain activates many of the same regions involved in the subjective in distinct contexts, depending on the kind of information available to perceivers about another person's mental states. ./cache/work_hwptdgsggza6jeaek3gujntsoy.pdf ./txt/work_hwptdgsggza6jeaek3gujntsoy.txt