The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction

By Marco Iacoboni, Mirella Dapretto. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sensory Systems, Social Psychology

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The Development of Empathy : How , When , and Why (2010, background): “Studies of macaque monkeys have revealed a special class of motor neurons, referred to as mirror neurons, that respond similarly to the perception of actions in others and the production of actions in oneself (Gallese et al. 2009; Iacoboni & Dapretto 2006).”
The emotive neuroscience of embodiment (2012, background): “This process involves the firing of mirror neurons, that is, cells within a complex frontoparietal network that enable the integration of sensory signals and motor actions (Iacoboni and Dapretto 2006).”
Mapping early brain development in autism. (2007, neutral): “…mirror neuron system and the resting network, systems that involve frontal, temporal, and parietal cortices and mediate the sense of the physical and psychological self in relationship to physical and psychological actions and states of others (Frith and Frith, 2006; Iacoboni and Dapretto, 2006).”
Imitation, empathy, and mirror neurons. (2009, background): “The parietal mirror neuron area would code the motor aspect of the action (Iacoboni et al. 1999), whereas the frontal mirror neuron area would be more concerned with the goal of the action (Iacoboni 2005, Iacoboni et al. 2005, Iacoboni & Dapretto 2006, Koski et al. 2002).”
Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior (2014, result): “, 2010) and supports the early conclusions that there are human brain hubs showing strong patterns of activity suggesting mirroring, including the posterior inferior frontal and the anterior inferior parietal cortex (Iacoboni et al., 1999; Iacoboni, 2005; Iacoboni and Dapretto, 2006).”
Understanding interpersonal action coordination: an fMRI study (2011, background): “…an important role in understanding other people’s actions because this neuron system is responsible for representing and simulating observed actions in the observer’s brain (Iacoboni and Dapretto 2006; Rizzolatti and Craighero 2004; Rizzolatti and Sinigaglia 2007, 2010; Rizzolatti et al. 2001).”
ALE meta-analysis of action observation and imitation in the human brain (2010, neutral): “Another is the hemispheric dominance of such functions, as arguments have been made for a leading role of either hemisphere as well as for a bilateral distribution (e.g., Iacoboni and Dapretto, 2006).”
Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism (2013, background): “The actual emotional reactions happen in the limbic system, which is linked to the mirror neuron system through the pars opercularis (Iacoboni & Dapretto, 2006) and insula (Carr, Iacoboni, Dubeau, Mazziotta, & lenzi, 2003; lamm, Batson, & Decety, 2007) regions of the brain. gallese (2001, 2003)…”
Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children (2008, result): “…direct empirical evidence bearing on this broader issue is lacking, although numerous findings of MNS dysfunction in autism (for reviews, see Iacoboni and Dapretto, 2006, and Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007) are consistent with the hypothesis of MNS involvement in social cognition, given…”
Functional neuroimaging correlates of finger-tapping task variations: An ALE meta-analysis (2008, background): “…as its extent has been shown to encompass part of Broca's region (Binkofski and Buccino, 2004), and as one of the key structures in the human mirror neuron system, demonstrating activation during observation, execution, and imitation of action (Iacoboni et al., 1999; Iacoboni and Dapretto, 2006).”
Brain basis of human social interaction: from concepts to brain imaging. (2009, background): “The posterior superior temporal sulcus (STSp) and the inferior parietal lobe (IPL) contribute to the human MNS, although they do not have true mirroring properties: they are activated during observing others’ movements but not during one’s own actions (112, 172).”
The Phonological Loop (2010, background): “The parietal projections to the inferior frontal lobe have also been associated with hand manipulation and with the “mirror system” for grasping that permits identification and imitation of grasping actions (Iacoboni and Dapretto 2006; Nelissen et al. 2005; see fig.”
A link between the systems: functional differentiation and integration within the human insula revealed by meta-analysis (2010, background): “Finally, the anterior basal insula was hypothesized to provide a link between the mirror neuron system and emotional processing, thus enabling a matching between own and observed emotions (Iacoboni and Dapretto 2006).”
A Developmental Perspective on Executive Function (2010, background): “As further support, Johnstone et al. (2007) observed stronger frontal N2 activity in response to no-go stimuli than go stimuli.”