Mirror Neurons Mehran Emadi 1 Mirror Neurons Giacomo

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Mirror Neurons Mehran Emadi 1

Mirror Neurons Mehran Emadi 1

Mirror Neurons Giacomo Rizzolatti, 1995 • Monkey • Grasping • F 5 – (in

Mirror Neurons Giacomo Rizzolatti, 1995 • Monkey • Grasping • F 5 – (in premotor cortex, related to speech area) 2

Mirror Neurons Marco Iacoboni, 2000 It is active both when the monkey observes another

Mirror Neurons Marco Iacoboni, 2000 It is active both when the monkey observes another monkey or a human grasping or manipulating objects and when the monkey performs the same manipulation 3

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Mirror Neurons 4

Mirror Neurons Decety, 2002 similar system in humans involving predominantly Brodmann’s areas 44 and

Mirror Neurons Decety, 2002 similar system in humans involving predominantly Brodmann’s areas 44 and 45 (Broca’s areas), 40 (parietal lobe), and 21 (superior temporal sulcus). imitation learning 5

Mirror Neurons Fadiga, 1995 - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) of the motor area, in

Mirror Neurons Fadiga, 1995 - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) of the motor area, in which stimulation provoked muscle activity in the fingers - Fadiga et al. concluded that “in humans there is a neural system matching action observation and action execution” 6

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