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The mirror mechanism: recent findings and perspectives
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Mirror neurons are a specific type of visuomotor neuron that discharge both when a monkey executes a motor act and when it observes a similar motor act performed by another individual. In this article, we review first the basic properties of these neurons. We then describe visual features recently investigated which indicate that, besides encoding the goal of motor acts, mirror neurons are modulated by location in space of the observed motor acts, by the perspective from which the others’ motor acts are seen, and by the value associated with the object on which others’ motor acts are performed. In the last part of this article, we discuss the role of the mirror mechanism in planning actions and in understanding the intention underlying the others’ motor acts. We also review some human studies suggesting that motor intention in humans may rely, as in the monkey, on the mirror mechanism.
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- Authors
- Rizzolatti, G., & Fogassi, L.
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2014-06-05
- Volume
- 369
- Issue
- 1644
- Pages
- 20130420
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- OpenAlex
- W2029008297
- Cited by
- 301
- References
- 65
- FWCI
- 38.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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