FMRI adaptation reveals mirror neurons in human inferior parietal cortex.

ABSTRACT: Mirror neurons, as originally described in the macaque, have two defining properties [1, 2]: They respond specifically to a particular action (e.g., bringing an object to the mouth), and they produce their action-specific responses independent of whether the monkey executes the action or passively observes a conspecific performing the same action. In humans, action observation and action execution engage a network of frontal, parietal, and temporal areas. However, it is unclear whether these responses reflect the activity of a single population that represents both observed and executed actions in a common neural code or the activity of distinct but overlapping populations of exclusively perceptual and motor neurons [3]. Here, we used fMRI adaptation to show that the right inferior parieta

SUBMITTER: Chong TT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2766090 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature