Mirror Neurons Differentially Encode the Peripersonal and Extrapersonal Space of Monkeys Export

@article{citeulike:4341024, abstract = {Actions performed by others may have different relevance for the observer, and thus lead to different behavioral responses, depending on the regions of space in which they are executed. We found that in rhesus monkeys, the premotor cortex neurons activated by both the execution and the observation of motor acts (mirror neurons) are differentially modulated by the location in space of the observed motor acts relative to the monkey, with about half of them preferring either the monkey's peripersonal or extrapersonal space. A portion of these spatially selective mirror neurons encode space according to a metric representation, whereas other neurons encode space in operational terms, changing their properties according to the possibility that the monkey will interact with the object. These results suggest that a set of mirror neurons encodes the observed motor acts not only for action understanding, but also to analyze such acts in terms of features that are relevant to generating appropriate behaviors. 10.1126/science.1166818}, author = {Caggiano, Vittorio and Fogassi, Leonardo and Rizzolatti, Giacomo and Thier, Peter and Casile, Antonino}, citeulike-article-id = {4341024}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1166818}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5925/403}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19372433}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19372433}, day = {17}, doi = {10.1126/science.1166818}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {action\_understanding, mirror\_neuron, neuro, spatial}, month = {April}, number = {5925}, pages = {403--406}, posted-at = {2009-07-01 03:31:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Mirror Neurons Differentially Encode the Peripersonal and Extrapersonal Space of Monkeys}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1166818}, volume = {324}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4341024 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4341024 N2 - Actions performed by others may have different relevance for the observer, and thus lead to different behavioral responses, depending on the regions of space in which they are executed. We found that in rhesus monkeys, the premotor cortex neurons activated by both the execution and the observation of motor acts (mirror neurons) are differentially modulated by the location in space of the observed motor acts relative to the monkey, with about half of them preferring either the monkey's peripersonal or extrapersonal space. A portion of these spatially selective mirror neurons encode space according to a metric representation, whereas other neurons encode space in operational terms, changing their properties according to the possibility that the monkey will interact with the object. These results suggest that a set of mirror neurons encodes the observed motor acts not only for action understanding, but also to analyze such acts in terms of features that are relevant to generating appropriate behaviors. 10.1126/science.1166818 IS - 5925 JF - Science EP - 406 TI - Mirror Neurons Differentially Encode the Peripersonal and Extrapersonal Space of Monkeys VL - 324 SP - 403 KW - action_understanding KW - mirror_neuron KW - neuro KW - spatial AU - Caggiano, Vittorio AU - Fogassi, Leonardo AU - Rizzolatti, Giacomo AU - Thier, Peter AU - Casile, Antonino PY - 2009/04/17/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1166818 ER -