期刊
NEUROIMAGE
卷 36, 期 -, 页码 T44-T53出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.03.028
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action observation; imitation; mirror neuron system; functional MRI; posterior inferior frontal gyrus; anterior inferior parietal lobule
The posterior inferior frontal gyros (pIFG) and anterior inferior parietal lobule (aIPL) form the core regions of the human mirror neuron system that matches an observed movement onto its internal motor representation. We used event-related functional MRI to examine whether simple intransitive finger movements evoke mirror activity in the pIFG and aIPL. In separate sessions, participants either merely observed visuospatial stimuli or responded to them as quickly as possible with a spatially compatible finger movement. A picture of a relaxed hand with static dots on the tip of the index and little finger was continuously presented as high-level baseline. Four types of stimuli were presented in a pseudorandom order: a color change of a dot, a moving finger, a moving dot, or a simultaneous finger-dot movement. Dot movements were spatially and kinematically matched to finger movements. Participants were faster at imitating a finger movement than performing the same movement in response to a moving dot or a color change of a dot. Though imitative responses were facilitated, fMRI revealed no additional mirror activity in the pIFG and aIPL during the observation or imitation of finger movements as opposed to observing or responding to a moving dot. Mere observation of a finger movement alone failed to induce significant activation of the pIFG and aIPL. The lack of a signature of mirror neuron activity in the inferior frontoparietal cortex is presumably due to specific features of the task which may have favored stimulus-response mapping based on common spatial coding. We propose that the responsiveness of human frontoparietal mirror neuron areas to simple intransitive movements critically depends on the experimental context. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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