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21281612

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-3-22
pubmed:abstractText
Perceiving and interpreting social information richness is something that humans do automatically whenever they engage in social interactions. Numerous studies have identified neural substrates, including mirror neurons that may enable such social perception. In this study, we temporarily disrupted activity in the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). We investigated whether this cortical region, that is hypothesized to include mirror neurons, plays a central role in social perception. The LIFG was stimulated in the experimental condition (n=18), the vertex was targeted in the control condition (n=19). Disrupting LIFG, but not vertex, increased reaction times during an emotion recognition task, and eliminated the suppression of the 8-12Hz EEG ? rhythm, postulated as an index of mirroring activity. The results of this study provide further evidence for the role of the human mirror neuron system (MNS) in social perception, and indicate that the MNS can be measured with EEG.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1872-6240
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
6
pubmed:volume
1383
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
196-205
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in social perception: an rTMS study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. mckeuken@gmail.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article