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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014 Just over 20 years ago, an Italian team reported findings on macaques showing the existence of a “surprising new class” of neurons in a particular region of the premotor cortex of the macaque brain (1). These neurons were active not only when the macaque performed an action—like grabbing an object—but also when the macaque watched the same action being
Marshall J.
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Affective mirror and anti-mirror neurons relate to prosocial help in rats [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Summary: Although empathic emotion is closely related to prosocial behavior, neuronal substrate that accounts for empathy-associated prosocial action remains poorly understood. We recorded neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and insular cortex
Wen-Yi Wu +4 more
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Non-shared coding of observed and executed actions prevails in macaque ventral premotor mirror neurons [PDF]
eLife, 2023 According to the mirror mechanism the discharge of F5 mirror neurons of a monkey observing another individual performing an action is a motor representation of the observed action that may serve to understand or learn from the action. This hypothesis, if
Jörn K Pomper +4 more
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Corticospinal mirror neurons. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2014 Here, we report the properties of neurons with mirror-like characteristics that were identified as pyramidal tract neurons (PTNs) and recorded in the ventral premotor cortex (area F5) and primary motor cortex (M1) of three macaque monkeys. We analysed the neurons’ discharge while the monkeys performed active grasp of either food or an object, and also ...
Kraskov A +5 more
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Mirror neurons in a New World monkey, common marmoset [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2015 Mirror neurons respond when executing a motor act and when observing others’ similar act. So far, mirror neurons have been found only in macaques, humans and songbirds. To investigate the degree of phylogenetic specialization of mirror neurons during the
Wataru eSuzuki +8 more
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Tinbergen on mirror neurons. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2014 Fifty years ago, Niko Tinbergen defined the scope of behavioural biology with his four problems: causation, ontogeny, survival value and evolution. About 20 years ago, there was another highly significant development in behavioural biology—the discovery of mirror neurons (MNs).
Heyes C.
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What Else Is Happening to the Mirror Neurons?—A Bibliometric Analysis of Mirror Neuron Research Trends and Future Directions (1996–2024) [PDF]
Brain and BehaviorBackground Since its discovery in the late 20th century, research on mirror neurons has become a pivotal area in neuroscience, linked to various cognitive and social functions.
Yangyang Sun +5 more
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Mirror neurons precede non-mirror neurons during action execution. [PDF]
J Neurophysiol, 2019 Mirror neurons are thought to represent an individual’s ability to understand the actions of others by discharging as one individual performs or observes another individual performing an action. Studies typically have focused on mirror neuron activity during action observation, examining activity during action execution primarily to validate mirror ...
Mazurek KA, Schieber MH.
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What Happened to Mirror Neurons? [PDF]
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2022 Caroline Catmur, Cecilia Heyes
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Emotional Mirror Neurons in the Rat’s Anterior Cingulate Cortex
Current Biology, 2019 Christian Keysers, Valeria Gazzola
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