Audiovisual mirror neurons and action recognition

by: C Keysers, E Kohler, MA Umiltà, L Nanetti, L Fogassi, V Gallese

Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 153, No. 4. (1 December 2003), pp. 628-636.

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Many object-related actions can be recognized both by their sound and by their vision. Here we describe a population of neurons in the ventral premotor cortex of the monkey that discharge both when the animal performs a specific action and when it hears or sees the same action performed by another individual. These 'audiovisual mirror neurons' therefore represent actions independently of whether these actions are performed, heard or seen. The magnitude of auditory and visual responses did not differ significantly in half the neurons. A neurometric analysis revealed that based on the response of these neurons, two actions could be discriminated with 97% accuracy.

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TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2278292 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2278292 TI - Audiovisual mirror neurons and action recognition JF - Experimental Brain Research VL - 153 IS - 4 SP - 628 EP - 636 N2 - Many object-related actions can be recognized both by their sound and by their vision. Here we describe a population of neurons in the ventral premotor cortex of the monkey that discharge both when the animal performs a specific action and when it hears or sees the same action performed by another individual. These 'audiovisual mirror neurons' therefore represent actions independently of whether these actions are performed, heard or seen. The magnitude of auditory and visual responses did not differ significantly in half the neurons. A neurometric analysis revealed that based on the response of these neurons, two actions could be discriminated with 97% accuracy. KW - auditory KW - cross-modal AU - Keysers, C AU - Kohler, E AU - Umiltà, MA AU - Nanetti, L AU - Fogassi, L AU - Gallese, V PY - 2003/12/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-003-1603-5 ER -

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