Reafferent copies of imitated actions in the right superior temporal cortex

By Marco Iacoboni, L. Koski, Marcel Brass, Harold Bekkering, R. Woods, Marie-Charlotte Dubeau, John C. Mazziotta, Giacomo Rizzolatti. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Social Psychology

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The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data (2008, background): “…brain areas may be common to motor execution and observation (Fadiga et al. 1995, 2002; Grafton et al. 1996; Decety et al. 1997; Hari et al. 1998; Iacoboni et al. 1999, 2001; Buccino et al. 2001; Gangitano et al. 2001; Avikainen et al. 2002; Aziz-Zadeh et al. 2002, 2004, 2006; Grezes et al.…”
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Predictive coding: an account of the mirror neuron system (2007, background): “…been J. M. Kilner (&) Á K. J. Friston Á C. D. Frith The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, WC1N 3BG London, UK e-mail: j.kilner@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk demonstrated in humans, both directly (Rushworth et al. 2006) and indirectly (Iacoboni et al. 2001, 2005).”
Mirror neuron: a neurological approach to empathy (2005, unknown): “(Rizzolatti et al. 1996; Grafton et al. 1996; Grèzes et al. 1998, 2003; Iacoboni et al. 1999, 2001; Nishitani and Hari 2000, 2002; Buccino et al. 2001; Koski et al. 2002, 2003; Manthey et al. 2003, Johnson-Frey et al. 2003).”
The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction (2006, background): “1 ), the STS would provide a higher-order visual description of the action to be imitate”
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Meaningful interactions can enhance visual discrimination of human agents (2006, background): “, thus making this region an unlikely candidate for action interpretation through visuomotor simulation (the increase in fMRI activity within human STS in response to both action observation and execution is interpreted as feedback from the MNS; ref”
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