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SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 257-259Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr004
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- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia [21538]
- Ministero Istruzione Universita e Ricerca (Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale) [2008YTNXXZ_002]
- Universita di Bologna (Ricerca Fondamentale Orientata)
- Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico E. Medea'' (Ricerca Corrente, Ministero della Salute)
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Neurophysiological and imaging studies suggest that the inferior frontal cortex (IFC) implements a mechanism that matches perceived actions to one's motor representation of similar actions (mirror mechanism) and recent lesion studies have also established that IFC is critical for action perception. However, to date causative evidence that action perception requires activation within the same populations of IFC neurons involved in action execution is lacking. In this issue, Cattaneo and colleagues provide the first direct evidence that mirror mechanisms in IFC influence action perception. We discuss the implications of these findings for the understanding of the functional role of mirror mechanisms.
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