Evidence of mirror neurons in human inferior frontal gyrus.
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SUBMITTER: Kilner JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2788150 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
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Evidence of mirror neurons in human inferior frontal gyrus.
Kilner James M JM Neal Alice A Weiskopf Nikolaus N Friston Karl J KJ Frith Chris D CD
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20090801 32
There is much current debate about the existence of mirror neurons in humans. To identify mirror neurons in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) of humans, we used a repetition suppression paradigm while measuring neural activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Subjects either executed or observed a series of actions. Here we show that in the IFG, responses were suppressed both when an executed action was followed by the same rather than a different observed action and when an observed a ...[more]
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