Mirror Neurons of Ventral Premotor Cortex Are Modulated by Social Cues Provided by Others' Gaze

Coudé, Gino; Festante, Fabrizia; Cilia, Adriana; Loiacono, Veronica; Bimbi, Marco; Fogassi, Leonardo; Ferrari, Pier Francesco

doi:10.1523/jneurosci.3220-15.2016

Cited by 24 publications

(23 citation statements)

References 59 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…There is also evidence for mirroring activity in newborn monkeys when they observe communicative facial gestures (Ferrari et al, 2012). And, as noted earlier, monkey mirror neurons are modulated by eye gaze (Coudé et al, 2016), a key feature in communicative contexts across species. In the last decade, there have been a number of studies demonstrating that macaques can learn to partially control vocalization, with a very limited number of utterances (Coudé et al, 2011;Hage & Nieder, 2013).…”

Section: From Mirror Neurons In Monkeys To Human Language: Beyond Tsupporting

confidence: 57%

The role of the motor system in action understanding and communication: Evidence from human infants and non‐human primates

Salo

Ferrari

2018

Developmental Psychobiology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

There is growing evidence that activation of the motor system during observation of actions, a phenomenon first observed in non‐human primates, underlies action understanding and even communication. This review (a) examines the evidence on motor system activity as an underlying neural correlate of action understanding; (b) reviews the theoretical and empirical work linking action understanding and the development of communication, with a specific focus on the role that gestures play as an intermediary; and (c) discusses the research on and existing opportunities for understanding the link between the motor system and communication in both humans and non‐human primates, through the lens of action perception. Bringing together findings and perspectives from developmental social cognition in both humans and non‐human primates and applying recent neuroscientific perspectives will help to elucidate the processes underlying the ability to understand and communicate with others.

show abstract

Section: From Mirror Neurons In Monkeys To Human Language: Beyond Tsupporting

confidence: 57%

The role of the motor system in action understanding and communication: Evidence from human infants and non‐human primates

Salo

Ferrari

2018

Developmental Psychobiology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The suggestion that processing eye-gaze direction and wider social orienting mechanisms could occur via mirroring or direct mapping processes has, however, attracted growing interest (Frischen, Loach, & Tipper, 2009;Rizzolatti & Sinigaglia, 2010;Shepherd, 2010). One recent fMRI study has already identified mirror neuron areas which may be responsive to averted and direct gaze in humans (Coudé et al, 2016).…”

Section: The Neural Basis Of Attention To Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual attention and action: How cueing, direct mapping, and social interactions drive orienting

2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Despite considerable interest in both action perception and social attention over the last 2 decades, there has been surprisingly little investigation concerning how the manual actions of other humans orient visual attention. The present review draws together studies that have measured the orienting of attention, following observation of another's goal-directed action. Our review proposes that, in line with the literature on eye gaze, action is a particularly strong orienting cue for the visual system. However, we additionally suggest that action may orient visual attention using mechanisms, which gaze direction does not (i.e., neural direct mapping and corepresentation). Finally, we review the implications of these gaze-independent mechanisms for the study of attention to action. We suggest that our understanding of attention to action may benefit from being studied in the context of joint action paradigms, where the role of higher level action goals and social factors can be investigated.

show abstract

“…Biological motion is linked to mirror neurons in the context of action understanding (e.g., [82, 83]), recognition of facial expressions has been linked to mirror neurons in an emulation account (e.g., [79]), and eye gaze processing and gaze following have been linked to mirror neuron activity [84, 85]. …”

Section: Left Inferior Frontal and Precentral Gyrus/mirror Neuronmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Comparison of Brain Imaging Meta-Analyses of ToM with vPT

Arora

Schurz

Perner

2017

BioMed Research International

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In visual perspective taking (vPT) one has to concern oneself with what other people see and how they see it. Since seeing is a mental state, developmental studies have discussed vPT within the domain of “theory of mind (ToM)” but imaging studies have not treated it as such. Based on earlier results from several meta-analyses, we tested for the overlap of visual perspective taking studies with 6 different kinds of ToM studies: false belief, trait judgments, strategic games, social animations, mind in the eyes, and rational actions. Joint activation was observed between the vPT task and some kinds of ToM tasks in regions involving the left temporoparietal junction (TPJ), anterior precuneus, left middle occipital gyrus/extrastriate body area (EBA), and the left inferior frontal and precentral gyrus. Importantly, no overlap activation was found for the vPT tasks with the joint core of all six kinds of ToM tasks. This raises the important question of what the common denominator of all tasks that fall under the label of “theory of mind” is supposed to be if visual perspective taking is not one of them.

show abstract

Mirror Neurons of Ventral Premotor Cortex Are Modulated by Social Cues Provided by Others' Gaze

Cited by 24 publications

References 59 publications

The role of the motor system in action understanding and communication: Evidence from human infants and non‐human primates

The role of the motor system in action understanding and communication: Evidence from human infants and non‐human primates

Visual attention and action: How cueing, direct mapping, and social interactions drive orienting

Systematic Comparison of Brain Imaging Meta-Analyses of ToM with vPT

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About