Mirror Neurons Responding to Observation of Actions Made with Tools in Monkey Ventral Premotor Cortex

By Pier Francesco Ferrari, Stefano Rozzi, Leonardo Fogassi. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Seeing or doing? Influence of visual and motor familiarity in action observation. (2006, background): “One recent study reported a class of mirror neurons that develops a purely visual response to observed actions involving tools that the monkey itself does not use [4].”
Where do mirror neurons come from? (2010, background): “The primary evidence of experiential modulation in monkeys comes from a study in which ‘toolresponding mirror neurons’ were found in animals that had received many opportunities to observe humans using a stick or pliers as a tool, and subsequently to grasp the object themselves (Ferrari et al., 2005”
The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction (2006, background): “Finally, a recent study has reported the existence of mirror neurons responding to tool use actions, in the lateral sector of area F5 (Ref”
Neural mechanisms of imitation. (2005, background): “Recently, however, a contingent of mirror neurons with neural responses that are stronger to the sight of actions using tools than to the sight of grasping actions has been observed [28 ].”
The interactive brain hypothesis (2012, background): “Accordingly, the possibilities for action afforded by an object and our bodies is sedimented in dispositions that depend on how bodily movement and sensation co-vary when the object is skilfully engaged with.”
Imitation, empathy, and mirror neurons. (2009, background): “However, a recent study recording in the inferolateral aspect of area F5 has reported robust discharges in approximately 20% of recorded mirror neurons when the monkey observed the experimenters using tools (Ferrari et al. 2005).”
The anthropomorphic brain: The mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions (2007, background): “grasping with the hand), but respond to the sight of a variety of actions that achieve the same goal(different types ofprehensions andevengraspingwiththe mouth), with some of them even responding to the sight of actions performed by tools ( Ferrari et al., 2005 ).”
Eight Problems for the Mirror Neuron Theory of Action Understanding in Monkeys and Humans (2009, background): “This function of mirror neurons, however, has been restricted to humans because macaques (at least adult macaques; Ferrari et al., 2006) do not imitate (Visalberghi & Fragaszy, 2001). This means that mirror neuron function, as it is studied in macaque monkeys, cannot be the basis of imitation. Rizzo”
Learning Invariant Feature Spaces to Transfer Skills with Reinforcement Learning (2017, background): “Mirror neurons also ﬁre both when the animal performs a task and when it observes another animal performing it (Rizzolatti & Craighero, 2004; Ferrari et al., 2005).”