How Brains Model Minds By Frith Analysis

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In the article, How Brains Model Minds the author Frith talks about internal factors which contribute to perception as well evolutionary bases of why people perceive things the way they do. Imitation is like perception. People automatically without having to think too much about it. At first, it seems easy to imitate any movement, but until people try to do it and realize how difficult can be to imitate the action. When we imitate someone’s moves, we watch the person’s movements closely. However, we do not copy these movements. People use the movements to find something in the mind of the person that they are watching, which is the goal of the movement. Then people imitate them by making similar movements achieves the goal (“imitation give

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