TY - JOUR AU - Schilbach, Leonhard AU - Timmermans, Bert AU - Reddy, Vasudevi AU - Costall, Alan AU - Bente, Gary AU - Schlicht, Tobias AU - Vogeley, Kai TI - A second-person neuroscience in interaction JO - Behavioral and brain sciences VL - 36 IS - 04 SN - 1469-1825 CY - New York, NY [u.a.] PB - Cambridge Univ. Press M1 - FZJ-2015-03666 SP - 441 - 462 PY - 2013 AB - In this response we address additions to as well as criticisms and possible misinterpretations of our proposal for a second-person neuroscience. We map out the most crucial aspects of our approach by (1) acknowledging that second-person engaged interaction is not the only way to understand others, although we claim that it is ontogenetically prior; (2) claiming that spectatorial paradigms need to be complemented in order to enable a full understanding of social interactions; and (3) restating that our theoretical proposal not only questions the mechanism by which a cognitive process comes into being, but asks whether it is at all meaningful to speak of a mechanism and a cognitive process when it is confined to intra-agent space. We address theoretical criticisms of our approach by pointing out that while a second-person social understanding may not be the only mechanism, alternative approaches cannot hold their ground without resorting to second-person concepts, if not in the expression, certainly in the development of social understanding. In this context, we also address issues of agency and intentionality, theoretical alternatives, and clinical implications of our approach. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000322225700064 DO - DOI:10.1017/S0140525X12002452 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/201371 ER -