Parietal Lobe: From Action Organization to Intention Understanding

By Leonardo Fogassi, Pier Francesco Ferrari, B. Gesierich, Stefano Rozzi, Fabian Chersi, Giacomo Rizzolatti. Science, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Investigating action understanding: inferential processes versus action simulation. (2007, positive): “More recently, however, it has been proposed that the premotor mirror-neuron areas are sensitive to context effects on intention recognition and are ‘‘also involved in understanding the [‘‘global’’] intentions of others’’ in which ‘‘intention’’ is interpreted ‘‘to indicate the ‘why’ of an action’’ [”
Posture influences motor imagery: An fMRI study (2006, background): “Alternatively, if action observation depends on extracting action goals (Wohlschlager et al., 2003; Fogassi et al., 2005) and thus relies on different functional mechanisms than action simulation, then action observation should not be necessarily bound to the posture of the observer.”
The anthropomorphic brain: The mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions (2007, background): “Sensitivity for goals is also suggested by studies showing that the MNS is responsive to the intention with which observed motor acts are carried out ( Fogassi et al., 2005; Iacoboni et al., 2005), and studies showing that at least in the parietal cortex, two actions with the same goal but differen”
Action understanding and active inference (2011, neutral): “2001) and were identified subsequently in an area of inferior parietal lobule, area PF (Fogassi et al. 2005).”
Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children (2008, background): “This MNS is thus thought to constitute a neural substrate for understanding others’ actions, as well as their intentions (Fogassi et al., 2005), via a ‘simulation’ mechanism whereby seeing the actions of others elicits neural activity in cells that are active when we perform those actions ourselves ”
Two Takes on the Social Brain: A Comparison of Theory of Mind Tasks (2007, background): “Moreover, activation of neurons in the MNS is associated with the representation of the goal or target of an action, which suggests that the MNS plays a role in the representation of others’ intentions (Fogassi et al., 2005; Umiltà et al., 2001).”
Human parietal cortex in action. (2006, background): “Action observation Within the grasping circuit of the macaque, including aIPS and the adjacent inferior parietal lobule [68], in addition to area F5 in frontal cortex [69], a subset of visuomotor neurons (known as ‘mirror neurons’) respond not only during the execution of goal-directed actions, but ”
Explaining After by Before: Basic Aspects of a Dynamic Systems Approach to the Study of Development. (2005, background): “…''mirror neurons,'' which are not just blind copying machines but actually help people (or individuals of the primate family in general) understand the intentions of others (Fogassi et al., 2005; Gallese, Keysers , & Rizzolatti, 2004; Preston & de Waal, 2002; Rizzolatti & Craighero, 2004).”
Putting the altruism back into altruism: the evolution of empathy. (2008, background): “Thus, mirror neurons fire automatically to observed actions, even intentions (Fogassi et al. 2005), and monkeys require no extrinsic rewards to copy each other’s behavior (Bonnie & de Waal 2006).”
What Do Mirror Neurons Contribute to Human Social Cognition (2008, background): “In motor tasks, Fogassi et al. (2005) found that the activity of 65% of MNs that fi re during execution of grasping is modulated by the more complex action of which it is a part.”
Brain regions with mirror properties: a meta-analysis of 125 human fMRI studies. (2012, methodology): “…in part because of their purported role in a diverse range of cognitive functions, from imitation and action understanding to social cognition (Iacoboni, 2005, 2009; Iacoboni et al., 2005; Fogassi et al., 2005; Keysers et al., 2010; Rizzolatti & Fabbri-Destro, 2008 ; Rizzolatti & Sinigaglia, 2010).”
Neural mechanisms of understanding rational actions: middle temporal gyrus activation by contextual violation. (2011, background): “…own repertoire (Buccino et al. 2004; Calvo-Merino et al. 2006) may be further processed in the inferior parietal lobule, particularly for the chaining of motor acts into a more global action (Fogassi et al. 2005) or for the distinction between different types of actions (Jastorff et al. 2010).”
Mirror Neurons, Embodied Simulation, and the Neural Basis of Social Identification (2009, background): “Neurons with similar properties were also discovered in a sector of the posterior parietal cortex (Fogassi et al., 2005; Gallese, Fogassi, Fadiga, & Rizzolatti, 2002).”
To What Extent is the Experience of Empathy Mediated by Shared Neural Circuits? (2010, background): “Neurons with similar visuo-motor properties were discovered in the anterior intraparietal area (Fogassi et al., 2005) and in the primary motor cortex (Tkach, Reimer, & Hatsopoulos, 2007).”
How concepts are encoded in the human brain: A modality independent, category-based cortical organization of semantic knowledge (2016, background): “Thus, the tool-related preference may be actually related to object-action interactions (Fogassi et al., 2005), and suggests that IP may play a key role in extracting semantic attributes relevant for action (Price, 2012; Stoeckel et al., 2009).”