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EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 153, Issue 4, Pages 628-636Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1603-5
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audiovisual mirror neurons; action recognition; object-related actions; ventral premotor cortex; monkey; neurometric analysis
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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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