Non-shared coding of observed and executed actions prevails in macaque ventral premotor mirror neurons.

ABSTRACT: According to the mirror mechanism the discharge of F5 mirror neurons of a monkey observing another individual performing an action is a motor representation of the observed action that may serve to understand or learn from the action. This hypothesis, if strictly interpreted, requires mirror neurons to exhibit an action tuning that is shared between action observation and execution. Due to insufficient data it remains contentious if this requirement is met. To fill in the gaps, we conducted an experiment in which identical objects had to be manipulated in three different ways in order to serve distinct action goals. Using three methods, including cross-task classification, we found that at most time points F5 mirror neurons did not encode observed actions with the same code underlying acti

SUBMITTER: Pomper JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10411969 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature