The anthropomorphic brain: The mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions

By Valeria Gazzola, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Bruno Wicker, Christian Keysers. NeuroImage, 2007

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

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The role of prediction in social neuroscience (2012, background): “Numerous fMRI studies have confirmed this overlap showing activation of SII, but more significant activation of BA2 during action observation (Grezes et al., 2003; Dinstein et al., 2007; Gazzola et al., 2007; Gazzola and Keysers, 2009; Turella et al., 2009).”
The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data (2008, methodology): “…location and reliability of sVx and proposes a model that extends the original idea of the MNS to include forward and inverse internal models and motor and sensory simulation, distinguishing the MNS from a more general concept of sVx. Keywords: action, execution, fMRI, mirror neurons, observation”
The thing that should not be: predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions (2011, background): “Some studies have reported that artificial agents’ actions apparently affect the observers’ own motor processing, or activity within the APS, whereas others have argued that the APS either does not respond, or responds weakly if the perceived actor is not human (e.g. Kilner et al., 2003; Tai et al.,”
The functional role of the parieto-frontal mirror circuit: interpretations and misinterpretations (2010, methodology): “Volunteers were instructed to observe video clips in which either a human or a robot arm grasped object”
Exploring the neural correlates of goal-directed action and intention understanding (2011, neutral): “Previous work on the mirror neuron system has produced controversial results as to whether it responds more to humans than robots (Kilner et al., 2003; Tai et al., 2004) or equivalently to both (Gazzola et al., 2007; Oberman et al., 2007; Perani et al., 2001).”
Where do mirror neurons come from? (2010, background): “…broadly homologous with those where mirror neurons have been found in monkeys (Aziz-Zadeh et al., 2006; Buccino et al., 2004a; Jonas et al., 2007; Gazzola et al., 2006, 2007a,b; Grè zes et al., 2003; Iacoboni et al., 1999; Molnar-Szakacs et al., 2005; Shmuelof and Zohary, 2006; Vogt et al.,…”
Kids See Human Too: Adapting an Individual Differences Measure of Anthropomorphism for a Child Sample (2016, background): “In the often-cited study by Heider and Simmel (1944), adult participants described simple moving shapes (triangles and circles) as if they had intentions and emotions. More recent work has shown that infants will interpret animated shapes as agents worthy of social evaluation (Hamlin, Wynn, & Bloom,”
Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis (2009, positive): “…even when the specific details of the movement are outside the motor vocabulary of the observer: hand actions for participants born without hands (Gazzola et al., 2007a) and robotic actions for typically A B -60 -40 -20 0 20 40 60 80 -120 -100 -80 -60 -40 -20 0 20 40 60 80 Execution of hand…”
A connectionist architecture for view-independent grip-aperture computation. (2008, background): “Moreover, in the context of Human Robot Interaction (HRI), these findings suggest the possibility of creating a basic action code which is shared among human and robotic agents and used to improve mutual action legibility ([Gazzola et al., 2007] and [Prevete et al.”
The Mirror Neuron System and Observational Learning: Implications for the Effectiveness of Dynamic Visualizations (2009, background): “important, the finding that the goal of the action seems to be most important for the activation of the mirror neuron system (Gazzola et al., 2007), strongly suggests that dynamic”