Understanding Activation Patterns in Shared Circuits: Toward a Value Driven Model

Overview

Journal Front Hum Neurosci

Specialty Neurology

Date 2018 Jun 6

PMID 29867409

Citations 3

Authors

Lisa Aziz-Zadeh

Emily Kilroy

Giorgio Corcelli

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Abstract

Over the past decade many studies indicate that we utilize our own motor system to understand the actions of other people. This mirror neuron system (MNS) has been proposed to be involved in social cognition and motor learning. However, conflicting findings regarding the underlying mechanisms that drive these shared circuits make it difficult to decipher a common model of their function. Here we propose adapting a "value-driven" model to explain discrepancies in the human mirror system literature and to incorporate this model with existing models. We will use this model to explain discrepant activation patterns in multiple shared circuits in the human data, such that a unified model may explain reported activation patterns from previous studies as a function of value.

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