[HTML][HTML] Mirror neurons 30 years later: implications and applications

L Bonini, C Rotunno, E Arcuri, V Gallese - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Mirror neurons (MNs) were first described in a seminal paper in 1992 as a class of monkey
premotor cells discharging during both action execution and observation. Despite their …

Neuronal reward and decision signals: from theories to data

W Schultz - Physiological reviews, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Rewards are crucial objects that induce learning, approach behavior, choices, and
emotions. Whereas emotions are difficult to investigate in animals, the learning function is …

Mirror neurons: from origin to function

R Cook, G Bird, C Catmur, C Press… - Behavioral and brain …, 2014 - cambridge.org
This article argues that mirror neurons originate in sensorimotor associative learning and
therefore a new approach is needed to investigate their functions. Mirror neurons were …

Cortical mechanisms underlying the organization of goal-directed actions and mirror neuron-based action understanding

G Rizzolatti, L Cattaneo… - Physiological …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Our understanding of the functions of motor system evolved remarkably in the last 20 years.
This is the consequence not only of an increase in the amount of data on this system but …

[HTML][HTML] What we know currently about mirror neurons

JM Kilner, RN Lemon - Current biology, 2013 - cell.com
Mirror neurons were discovered over twenty years ago in the ventral premotor region F5 of
the macaque monkey. Since their discovery much has been written about these neurons …

The mirror mechanism: recent findings and perspectives

G Rizzolatti, L Fogassi - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mirror neurons are a specific type of visuomotor neuron that discharge both when a monkey
executes a motor act and when it observes a similar motor act performed by another …

What modulates the mirror neuron system during action observation?: Multiple factors involving the action, the actor, the observer, the relationship between actor and …

D Kemmerer - Progress in Neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Seeing an agent perform an action typically triggers a motor simulation of that action in the
observer's Mirror Neuron System (MNS). Over the past few years, it has become increasingly …

Embodied cognition and mirror neurons: a critical assessment

A Caramazza, S Anzellotti, L Strnad… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
According to embodied cognition theories, higher cognitive abilities depend on the
reenactment of sensory and motor representations. In the first part of this review, we critically …

Effects of action observation on corticospinal excitability: Muscle specificity, direction, and timing of the mirror response

KR Naish, C Houston-Price, AJ Bremner, NP Holmes - Neuropsychologia, 2014 - Elsevier
Many human behaviours and pathologies have been attributed to the putative mirror neuron
system, a neural system that is active during both the observation and execution of actions …

[图书][B] Abstract concepts and the embodied mind: Rethinking grounded cognition

G Dove - 2022 - books.google.com
Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …