Evidence of Mirror Neurons in Human Inferior Frontal Gyrus Export

@article{citeulike:5428392, abstract = {There is much current debate about the existence of mirror neurons in humans. To identify mirror neurons in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) of humans, we used a repetition suppression paradigm while measuring neural activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Subjects either executed or observed a series of actions. Here we show that in the IFG, responses were suppressed both when an executed action was followed by the same rather than a different observed action and when an observed action was followed by the same rather than a different executed action. This pattern of responses is consistent with that predicted by mirror neurons and is evidence of mirror neurons in the human IFG. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2668-09.2009}, author = {Kilner, James M. and Neal, Alice and Weiskopf, Nikolaus and Friston, Karl J. and Frith, Chris D.}, citeulike-article-id = {5428392}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2668-09.2009}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jneurosci.org/content/29/32/10153.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.jneurosci.org/content/29/32/10153.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/32/10153}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19675249}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19675249}, day = {12}, doi = {10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2668-09.2009}, journal = {J. Neurosci.}, keywords = {mirror}, month = {August}, number = {32}, pages = {10153--10159}, posted-at = {2009-08-12 19:01:19}, priority = {2}, title = {Evidence of Mirror Neurons in Human Inferior Frontal Gyrus}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2668-09.2009}, volume = {29}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5428392 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5428392 N2 - There is much current debate about the existence of mirror neurons in humans. To identify mirror neurons in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) of humans, we used a repetition suppression paradigm while measuring neural activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Subjects either executed or observed a series of actions. Here we show that in the IFG, responses were suppressed both when an executed action was followed by the same rather than a different observed action and when an observed action was followed by the same rather than a different executed action. This pattern of responses is consistent with that predicted by mirror neurons and is evidence of mirror neurons in the human IFG. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2668-09.2009 IS - 32 JF - J. Neurosci. EP - 10159 TI - Evidence of Mirror Neurons in Human Inferior Frontal Gyrus VL - 29 SP - 10153 KW - mirror AU - Kilner, James AU - Neal, Alice AU - Weiskopf, Nikolaus AU - Friston, Karl AU - Frith, Chris PY - 2009/08/12/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2668-09.2009 ER -