Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the understanding and imitation of action

By Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi, Vittorio Gallese †. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Where do mirror neurons come from? (2010, background): “…e p a g e : w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / n e u b i o r e v cognition, including the ability to understand the actions of others (Rizzolatti et al., 2001), to 'read minds' (Gallese and Goldman, 1998), to imitate (Iacoboni et al., 1999; Rizzolatti et al., 2001) and to communicate…”
The Evolutionary Significance of Affect in Groups: Communication and Group Bonding (2004, background): “Rizzolatti et al. (2001) suggest that the mirror system is responsible for the development of both imitation and action understanding.”
Incremental Learning, Clustering and Hierarchy Formation of Whole Body Motion Patterns using Adaptive Hidden Markov Chains (2008, methodology): “Our motion model is inspired by the mirror neuron system, found in humans and other primates (Rizzolatti et al. 2001 Rizzolatti and Craighero 2004).”
Emotion, Embodiment, and Mirror Neurons in Dance/Movement Therapy: A Connection Across Disciplines (2008, background): “Recent research on mirror neurons suggests that there is no difference; observing engages the same neurological processes as embodying does (Gallese, 2005; Iacoboni, 2008; Rizzolatti, Fogassi, & Gallese, 2001 ).”
The extended body: a case study in the neurophenomenology of social interaction (2012, neutral): “3 See, e.g., Rizzolatti et al. (1999, 2001); Gallese et al. (2004); of ‘direct perception’, combined with an ‘enactive’ or sensorimotor approach to perception.”
The manifold nature of interpersonal relations: the quest for a common mechanism. (2003, background): “We called these neurons ‘mirror neurons ’ (Gallese et al. 1996, 2002a; Rizzolatti et al. 1996a, 2000, 2001; Gallese 2000 a, 2001).”
Contributions of memory circuits to language: the declarative/procedural model. (2004, background): “In macaques neurons that respond to the observation of movement, though not to movement itself (that is, they are not mirror neurons), are found in the anterior superior temporal sulcus – a region which is connected to both frontal area F5 and parietal area PF (Rizzolatti et al., 2001).”
Transcranial magnetic stimulation highlights the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain (2005, background): “Single-cell recording studies in monkeys show that premotor neurons become active both during execution of a given action and during observation of the same action performed by another human or monkey (mirror neurons”
Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Action Processing: Interaction between Visual and Motor Representations. (2015, background): “, 2014; Keysers and Perrett, 2004); (iii) the relationship between action processing and social cognition (Gallese et al., 2004; Rizzolatti and Sinigaglia, 2008; Spaulding, 2013); (iv) philosophical aspects, such as how mirror neurons are related to mind reading (Keysers and Gazzola, 2007), the awar”