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On beyond mirror neurons: Internal representations subserving imitation and recognition of skilled object-related actions in humans
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A considerable recent literature argues that the same representations, encoded by inferior prefrontal and parietal cells known as "mirror neurons", may be activated in both production and recognition of object-related actions. Here, we test several predictions derived from the contemporary literature on the parity between production and recognition and the putative emergence of the mirror neuron system from a system coding hand-object interactions. Forty-four patients with left-hemisphere stroke, 21 of whom exhibited ideomotor apraxia, performed a number of pantomime imitation and recognition tasks, and performance was scored with respect to hand posture, arm posture, amplitude, and timing. Consistent with predictions, there were strong relationships between object-related pantomime imitation and object-related pantomime recognition, and between imitation and recognition of the hand posture component of object-related actions. Skilled object-related gesture representations are likely to be closely tied to evolutionarily more primitive systems controlling object grasping, to emerge from a mapping between object and action information coded by ventral and dorsal streams, and to be lateralized to the left hemisphere in humans.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Buxbaum, L. J., Kyle, K. M., & Menon, R.
- Affiliations
- Thomas Jefferson University (US)
- Moss Rehabilitation Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- Buxbaum, Laurel J.
- ORCID
- Buxbaum, Laurel J.
- Venue
- Cognitive Brain Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-09
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 226-239
- ISSN
- 0926-6410 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2021596040
- Cited by
- 329
- References
- 65
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 22.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognitive Brain Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Pennsylvania Department of Health
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS036387, R01NS36387)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Keywords
- mirror neurons, imitation, human action recognition, pantomime, ideomotor apraxia, stroke, hemispheric lateralization, hand-object interaction, left hemisphere
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Analysis of Variance, Choice Behavior, Disability Evaluation, Female, Gestures, Humans, Imitative Behavior, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Psychomotor Performance, Space Perception, Case-Control Studies, Apraxia, Ideomotor, Stroke, Recognition, Psychology
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