The functional significance of mu rhythms: translating "seeing" and "hearing" into "doing".

By Jaime A. Pineda. Brain research. Brain research reviews, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Social Psychology

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Motor imagery and action observation: modulation of sensorimotor brain rhythms during mental control of a brain-computer interface. (2009, background): “…in the mu and beta frequency band has been recently linked to the activity of the human mirror neuron system, referring to an action observation/ execution matching system, which is capable of performing an internal simulation of the observed action (for a review see Pineda, 2005; Hari, 2006).”
Low-frequency neuronal oscillations as instruments of sensory selection (2008, neutral): “Natural stimulation acquired through our own motor behavior or produced by that of another animal is usually rhythmic, in part because motor behavior is itself patterned by oscillatory mechanisms such as the 10 Hz mu rhythm [59,60].”
EEG alpha oscillations: the inhibition-timing hypothesis. (2007, background): “Pineda (2005) concluded that mu activity might reflect the downstream modulation of motor neurons (see also Section 5.4.2).”
Inter-Brain Synchronization during Social Interaction (2010, neutral): “Previous fMRI studies indicated that the right temporoparietal region is consistently activated in both sociocognitive processes involving attention orientation, the sense of agency, self-other discrimination, perspective-taking [31,32], and in the temporal analysis of visuomotor processing [54,55].”
Dynamics of Active Sensing and Perceptual Selection (2010, background): “Rhythm in motor routines used in Active Sensing Motor output is modulated by motor cortical oscillatory rhythms in the delta (1–3 Hz), theta (5–7 Hz), mu (8–12 Hz), and beta (13–30 Hz) bands [6–11], and in our view, the motor system’s imposition of these rhythms on sensory inflow is a critical facto”
ERD/ERS patterns reflecting sensorimotor activation and deactivation. (2006, background): “More recently, it has been shown that mu ERS likely reflects more than an idling state (for a review, see Pineda, 2005).”
Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy (2011, background): “It has been hypothesized that this mu rhythm reflects downstream modulation of primary sensorimotor areas by mirror-neuron activity, representing a critical information-processing function, translating perception into action (Pineda, 2005).”
Age-related neural dynamics of empathy in preschoolers: an EEG study with naturalistic viewing (2026, unknown): “While spectral analysis indexes local processing efficiency (e.g. theta and alpha oscillations; Pineda 2005, Kienitz et al. 2018), it cannot capture large-scale state transitions (Michel and Murray 2012).”
The Interaction between Sleep and Development on Wake EEG Oscillations (2026, unknown): “These likely re ﬂ ect sensorimotor mu rhythms which appear when motor activity is absent or even suppressed (Pineda, 2005; Pfurtscheller et al., 2006) and are already present in infants (Berchicci et al., 2011).”
Neural oscillations track the maintenance and proceduralization of novel instructions (2021, background): “Specifically, we predicted a suppression of oscillations in the mu (8 – 12 Hz) and beta (15 – 30 Hz) frequency ranges, which have been shown to reflect motor cortex activity (Cheyne, 2013; Pineda, 2005; Rhodes et al., 2018; Schneider et al., 2017; Tzagarakis et al., 2015).”
Neural oscillations track the maintenance and proceduralization of novel instructions (2020, background): “Moreover, this reformatting is expected to induce the preparation of the instructed motor plan, and therefore a desynchronization of beta (20 – 30 Hz) and mu (8 – 12 Hz) frequency bands over central electrodes, revealing motor activation (Pineda, 2005; Cheyne, 2013; Tzagarakis et al., 2015; Schneide”