Mirror Neurons of Ventral Premotor Cortex Are Modulated by Social Cues Provided by Others' Gaze

Overview

Journal J Neurosci

Specialty Neurology

Date 2016 Mar 18

PMID 26985026

Citations 9

Authors

Gino Coude

Fabrizia Festante

Adriana Cilia

Veronica Loiacono

Marco Bimbi

Leonardo Fogassi

Pier Francesco Ferrari

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Abstract

Significance Statement: In this study, we present the first evidence showing that social cues modulate MNs in the monkey ventral premotor cortex. These data suggest that there is an integrated representation of other's hand actions and gaze direction at the single neuron level in the ventral premotor cortex, and support the hypothesis of a functional role of MNs in decoding actions and understanding motor intentions.

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