Hearing Sounds, Understanding Actions: Action Representation in Mirror Neurons

By E. Kohler, Christian Keysers, M. Umiltà, Leonardo Fogassi, Vittorio Gallese †, Giacomo Rizzolatti. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Social norms and social influence (2015, background): “, facial recognition [3]; mirror neurons [4]), and human language capacity [5] are fundamental to social coordination.”
Precise minds in uncertain worlds: predictive coding in autism. (2014, background): “Raised NE signalling in ASD is suggested by elevated blood plasma levels (Lam et al., 2006) and by a tonically high arousal system as shown by a tonically elevated heart rate in autistic children, with reduced phasic response (Kootz & Cohen, 1981).”
The emergence of music from the Theory of Mind (2009, background): “Some mirror neurons have also been shown to respond equally whether an action is seen, seen and heard, or only heard (Keysers et al., 2003; Kohler et al., 2002).”
Imitation, empathy, and mirror neurons. (2009, methodology): “Control sounds not associated with actions, for instance white noise, were also used (Keysers et al. 2003, Kohler et al. 2002).”
Neural mechanisms of imitation. (2005, background): “Mirror neurons have been found in the ventral premotor cortex (area F5 [3,5,6]) and in the rostral sector of the inferior parietal lobule (area PF [7 ]).”
Rehabilitation of Motor Function after Stroke: A Multiple Systematic Review Focused on Techniques to Stimulate Upper Extremity Recovery (2016, neutral): “The mirror neuron system is activated during the execution of ecological goal-directed actions, as well as during the observation of the same actions done by other individuals (Gallese et al., 1996; Rizzolatti et al., 1996; Kohler et al., 2002).”
Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children (2008, background): “For the empathic concern, personal distress, and fantasy subscales, significant correlations were again found in the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and left fusiform gyrus.”
Embodied simulation: From neurons to phenomenal experience (2005, background): “…class of F5 mirror neurons, " audio-visual mirror neurons " , discharge not only when the monkey executes or observes a particular type of noisy action (e.g. breaking a peanut), but also when it just listens to the sound produced by the action (see Kohler et al. 2002; Keysers et al. 2003).”
Before and below ‘theory of mind’: embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition (2007, background): “…alternative hypothesis, now more than 30 years old, assumes that the understanding of language relies on 'embodiment' (Lakoff & Johnson 1980, 1999; Lakoff 1987; Glenberg 1997; Barsalou 1999; Glenberg & Robertson 2000; Pulvermü eller 1999, 2002, 2005; Gallese 2003c; Feldman & Naranayan 2004;…”
Neural circuits involved in imitation and perspective-taking (2006, background): “Subsequent observations (Umilta et al., 2001; Kohler et al., 2002) strongly suggest that mirror neurons represent general aspects of actions such as the goal or its consequences rather than some other more elementary property of the movements (e.g., specific motor commands, muscle activity,…”
Transmodal Sensorimotor Networks during Action Observation in Professional Pianists (2005, background): “F5 neurons have also been described to exhibit audiovisual properties responding to action-related sounds (Kohler et al., 2002).”
Mirror Neurons, Embodied Simulation, and the Neural Basis of Social Identification (2009, background): “A second study (Kohler et al., 2002) demonstrated that mirror neurons also code the actions’ meaning on the basis of their related sound.”