Action observation activates premotor and parietal areas in a somatotopic manner: an fMRI study

By Giovanni Buccino, Ferdinand Binkofski, Gereon R. Fink, Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi, Vittorio Gallese †, R. Seitz, Karl Zilles, Giacomo Rizzolatti, H.-J. Freund. European Journal of Neuroscience, 2001

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Somatotopic representation of action words in human motor and premotor cortex. (2004, background): “the baseline tor cortex (Buccino et al., 2001; Rizzolatti et al., 2002; condition (”
Brain mechanisms linking language and action (2005, background): “Earlier fMRI research showed that the observation of action-related pictures, and also mere mental imagery of actions, activates the premotor cortex in a somatotopic fashio”
A touching sight: SII/PV activation during the observation and experience of touch. (2004, background): “…lookingmatic” activation is similar to the one observed in premoat the movies, but all subjects clearly knew that theytor and posterior parietal cortex during the observation were not actually being touched during the observationof actions (Buccino et al., 2001; Iacoboni et al., 1999; of touch.”
Human cortical representations for reaching: Mirror neurons for execution, observation, and imagery (2007, background): “Buccino et al. (2001) found a somatotopic organization for observation of movements performed with different effectors (hand, mouth, or foot) in both premotor and parietal cortex.”
Neural circuits involved in imitation and perspective-taking (2006, background): “…the posterior parietal cortices exists when subjects observe goal-directed actions being executed by other people (e.g., Baldissera et al., 2001; Buccino et al., 2001; Fadiga et al., 1995; Grafton et al., 1996; Hamzei et al., 2003; Hari et al., 1998) or even when only the goal of these action…”
Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synaesthesia. (2005, methodology): “One functional MRI (fMRI) experiment showed that observing actions leads to somatotopic activation of the premotor cortex, with the mouth represented laterally and the foot medially (Buccino et al., 2001).”
Mirror Neurons, Embodied Simulation, and the Neural Basis of Social Identification (2009, background): “The MNS in humans is directly involved in imitation of simple movements (Iacoboni et al., 1999), imitation learning of complex skills (Buccino et al., 2004a), in the perception of communicative actions (Buccino et al., 2004b), and in the detection of action intentions (Iacoboni et al., 2005).”
1 Imitation and Other Minds: The "Like Me" Hypothesis (2005, background): “, 1992; Rolls, 1992) and related work is emerging in human studies (Buccino et al., 2001).”
Functional imaging of face and hand imitation: towards a motor theory of empathy (2004, background): “OOUncited references Blonder et al., 1991 Zilles et al., 2001 PAcknowledgments Supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation.”
Mind Reading: Neural Mechanisms of Theory of Mind and Self-Perspective (2001, background): “More recent studies have provided strong evidence for the existence of an equivalent " mirror neuron system " in man (Buccino et al., 2001; Iacoboni et al., 1999).”
Image schemata in the brain (2005, background): “…space – i.e., what is within one’s own grasp – but also contain ‘mirror neurons’ with which the premotor cortex simulates the actions being taken by another monkey, or another human (Rizzolatti and Craighero 2004; Fogassi et al. 2001; Buccino et al. 2001; Umiltá et al. 2001; Ferrari et al. 2003).”
The case for motor involvement in perceiving conspecifics. (2005, background): “…magnetic resonance imaging) shows that observing finger, hand, arm, mouth, or foot movement leads to activation of motor-related areas of cortex (Buccino et al., 2001; Grafton, Arbib, Fadiga, & Rizzolatti, 1996; Iacoboni et al., 1999; Manthey, Shubotz, & von Cramon, 2003; Rizzolatti et al.,…”
Action observation has a positive impact on rehabilitation of motor deficits after stroke. (2007, background): “This approach has a strong physiological basis in the discovery of the mirror neuron system (Rizzolatti et al., 1996; Gallese et al., 1996; Fadiga et al., 1995; Buccino et al., 2001).”
Social cognitive development during adolescence. (2006, background): “In support of this ‘simulation theory’, a growing body of evidence from neurophysiological studies has demonstrated that common brain areas are activated both when we execute an action and when we observe another person perform the same action (Grafton et al., 1996; Rizzolatti et al., 1996a, b; Dece”