Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:23:05 BST CiteULike: mbregman's Keysers http://www.citeulike.org/user/mbregman/author/Keysers CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/mbregman/article/2278292 <i>Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 153, No. 4. (1 December 2003), pp. 628-636.</i><br /><br />Many object-related actions can be recognized both by their sound and by their vision. Here we describe a population of neurons in the ventral premotor cortex of the monkey that discharge both when the animal performs a specific action and when it hears or sees the same action performed by another individual. These 'audiovisual mirror neurons' therefore represent actions independently of whether these actions are performed, heard or seen. The magnitude of auditory and visual responses did not differ significantly in half the neurons. A neurometric analysis revealed that based on the response of these neurons, two actions could be discriminated with 97% accuracy. Audiovisual mirror neurons and action recognition C Keysers E Kohler MA Umiltà L Nanetti L Fogassi V Gallese doi:10.1007/s00221-003-1603-5 Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 153, No. 4. (1 December 2003), pp. 628-636. 2008-01-23T00:15:22-00:00 2003 Experimental Brain Research 153 4 628 636 auditory cross-modal http://www.citeulike.org/user/mbregman/article/874801 <i>Science, Vol. 297, No. 5582. (2 August 2002), pp. 846-848.</i><br /><br />Many object-related actions can be recognized by their sound. We found neurons in monkey premotor cortex that discharge when the animal performs a specific action and when it hears the related sound. Most of the neurons also discharge when the monkey observes the same action. These audiovisual mirror neurons code actions independently of whether these actions are performed, heard, or seen. This discovery in the monkey homolog of Broca's area might shed light on the origin of language: audiovisual mirror neurons code abstract contents-the meaning of actions-and have the auditory access typical of human language to these contents. Hearing sounds, understanding actions: action representation in mirror neurons. E Kohler C Keysers MA Umiltà L Fogassi V Gallese G Rizzolatti doi:10.1126/science.1070311 Science, Vol. 297, No. 5582. (2 August 2002), pp. 846-848. 2006-09-27T05:35:58-00:00 2002 Science 1095-9203 297 5582 846 848 auditory cross-modal