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18539253

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-6-9
pubmed:abstractText
We review the findings of 24 fMRI studies examining activations in the premotor cortex (Brodmann's areas 6 and 44) during passive observation of actions. We found that such activations regularly occurred. Looking for functional differentiation in the premotor cortex, we found that one parameter was associated with systematic differences in location: this was the presence or absence of targets. Observing biological actions with a physical target, compared to a visual control showing no action at all, consistently activated the ventral premotor cortex (BA 6), and did so significantly more than observing target-less actions (with the same control). In contrast, the activity in BA 44 ("Broca's area") was not modulated by the presence or absence of targets. We propose that the ventral precentral gyrus, and not BA 44, shares the visual properties of "mirror" neurons found in area F5 of the macaque brain.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0987-7053
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
189-95
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
What is "mirror" in the premotor cortex? A review.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut Jean-Nicod, UMR 8129, EHESS, CNRS, département d'études cognitives, Ecole normale supérieure, 29 rue d'Ulm, Paris, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Meta-Analysis