Dr. James Bonaiuto
James
Bonaiuto, Ph.D. is
Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroscience,
Andersen Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology.
He is interested in fMRI, action selection, reaching and grasping,
mirror systems, action
recognition, and the evolution of language.
James coauthored
Tool use and the distalization of the end-effector,
Extending the mirror neuron system model, I: Audible actions and
invisible grasps,
The mirror system hypothesis: From a macaque-like mirror system to
imitation,
Imitation in embodied communication — from monkey mirror neurons
to
artificial humans,
and
Extending the mirror neuron system model, II: what did I just do? A
new
role for mirror neurons.
He earned his B.S. in Computer Science at Drexel University in 2004.
He earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at University of Southern California
in 2010.
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LinkedIn profile.