Journal
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
Volume 51, Issue 3, Pages 488-492Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.12.007
Keywords
Prediction; Eye movement; TMS; Biological motion; Motor cortex; Mirror neuron; Direct matching
Funding
- Swedish Research Council [VR 2011-1528]
- Marie-Curie ITN RobotDoC
- SIEMPRE EU project (ICT-FET) [250026]
- POETICON++ EU project (STREP Project) [ICT-288382]
- University-ER Region Grant
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We examined the hypothesis that predictive gaze during observation of other people's actions depends on the activation of corresponding action plans in the observer. Using transcranial magnetic stimulation and eye-tracking technology we found that stimulation of the motor hand area, but not of the leg area, slowed gaze predictive behavior (compared to no TMS). This result shows that predictive eye movements to others' action goals depend on a somatotopical recruitment of the observer's motor system. The study provides direct support for the view that a direct matching process implemented in the mirror-neuron system plays a functional role for real-time goal prediction. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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