ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the mimetic role of mirror neurons in the embodiment of the matrix of language and thought. The subjects studied include vowel production, facial expression, the bodily self, the alienation from one’s own body in schizophrenia, the activation of muscle stimulation in the processes of reading and listening, the involvement of basal ganglia in the processing of syntax in a distributed (non-modular) system, rather than a hierarchical one, the activation of corresponding neural circuits in the brain when thinking of concepts associated with a word, and how the visual cortex is more activated during linguistic comprehension than it is during nonlinguistic comprehension.
