The Mirror Neuron System

A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience
Herausgegeben:Keysers, Christian; Fadiga, Luciano

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Produktbeschreibung

Mirror neurons are premotor neurons, originally discovered in the macaque brain , that discharge both during execution of goal-directed actions and during the observation of similar actions executed by another individual. They therefore 'mirror' others' actions on the observer's motor repertoire. In the last decade an impressive amount of work has been devoted to the study of their properties and to investigate if they are present also in our species. Neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques have shown that a mirror-neuron system does exist in the human brain as well. Among 'mirror' human areas, Broca's area (the frontal area for speech production) is almost constantly activated by action observation. This suggests a possible evolutionary link between action understanding and verbal communication. In the most recent years, mirror-like phenomena have been demonstrated also for domains others than the pure motor one. Examples of that are the somatosensory and the emotional systems, possibly providing a neurophysiological basis to phenomena such as embodiment and empathy. This special issue collects some of the most representative works on the mirror-neuron system to give a panoramic view on current research and to stimulate new experiments in this exciting field.

Produktdetails

• Special Issues of Social Neuroscience
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Psychology Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 278mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781138877818
• ISBN-10: 1138877816
• Artikelnr.: 42787127

Autorenporträt

Christian Keysers, Luciano Fadiga

Inhaltsangabe

C. Keysers
L. Fadiga
The Mirror Neuron System. S. Pichon
B. de Gelder
J. Grezes
Emotional Modulation of Visual and Motor Areas by Dynamic Body Expressions of Anger. H. van Schie
T. Koelewijn
O. Jensen
R. Oostenveld
E. Maris
H. Bekkering
Evidence for Fast
Low Level Motor Resonance to Action Observation: An MEG Study. L. Aziz-Zedeh
C. Fiebach
S. Naranayan
J. Feldman
E. Dodge
R. Ivry
Modulation of the FFA and PPA by Language Related to Faces and Places. P.F. Ferrari
G. Coudé
V. Gallese
L. Fogassi
Having Access to Others' Mind Through Gaze: The Role of Ontogenetic and Learning Processes in Gaze Following Behavior of Macaques. N. Fujii
S. Hihara
A. Iriki
Social Cognition in Premotor and Parietal Cortex. F. Lui
G. Buccino
D. Duzzi
F. Benuzzi
G. Crisi
P. Baraldi
P. Nichelli
C. Porro
G. Rizzolatti
Neural Substrates for Observing and Imagining Non Object-directed Actions. P. Borroni
F. Baldissera
Activation of Motor Pathways During Observation and Execution of Hand Movements. M. Gangitano
F. Mottaghy
A. Pascuale-Leone
Release of Premotor Activity After Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Prefrontal Cortex. T. Paus
R. Toro
G. Leonard
J. Lerner
R.M. Lerner
M. Perron
G.B. Pike
L. Richer
L. Steinberg
S. Veillette
Z. Pausova
Morphological Properties of the Action-observation Cortical Network in Adolescents with Low and High Resistance to Peer Influence. V. Gallese
Mirror Neurons and the Social Nature of Language: The Neural Exploitation Hypothesis. N. Pär
The Infant Mirror Neuron System Studied with High Density EEG. L. Oberman
V. Ramachandran
Preliminary Evidence for Deficits in Multisensory Integration in Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Mirror Neuron Hypothesis. M. Jeannerod
T. Anquetil
Putting Oneself in the Perspective of the Other: A Framework for the Self/Other Differentiation. A. Engel
M. Burke
K. Fiehler
S. Bien
F. Rösler
How Moving Objects Become Animated: The Human Mirror Neuron System Assimilates Non-biological Movement Patterns. F. de Vignemont
P. Haggard
Action Observation and Execution: What is Shared? M. Candidi
C. Urgesi
S. Ionta
S. Aglioti
Virtual Lesion of Ventral Premotor Cortex Impairs Visual Perception of Biomechanically Possible But Not Impossible Actions. M. Saarela
R. Hari
Listening Humans Walking Together Activates the Social Brain Circuitry. S. Atmaca
N. Sebanz
W. Prinz
G. Knoblich
Action Co-representation: The Joint SNARC Effect. N. Pratt
K. Spencer
Emotional States Influence the Neural Processing of Affective Language.