Mirroring mirror neurons in an interdisciplinary debate

Antonietti, Alessandro; Corradini, Antonella

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2013.04.007

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“…Specifically, the premotor cortex, particularly the lower part of the precentral gyrus (BA6), the posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus (BA44), the inferior parietal lobule (BA40), and the superior temporal sulcus (BA22/42) are implicated in human motor resonance and hence can be regarded as part of the human MNS ( Rizzolatti et al, 1996b ; Grèzes et al, 2001 ). The MNS is involved in higher motor/cognitive processes, such as the understanding of the meaning of an action and the intentionality of the person executing it, motor learning ( Buccino and Riggio, 2006 ), learning and imitation processes ( Jeannerod, 1994 ; Gallese and Goldman, 1998 ; Iacoboni et al, 1999 ; Rizzolatti et al, 2002 ; Buccino et al, 2004 ; Vogt et al, 2007 ; Gallese, 2009 ), language, and empathy ( Antonietti and Corradini, 2013 ; Oztop et al, 2013 ; Cook et al, 2014 ; Rizzolatti and Fogassi, 2014 ; Buccino et al, 2016 ). In particular, the MNS operates through a motor resonance mechanism that implies the understanding of the meaning of a gesture through an internal reproduction of the same action in the observer ( Fadiga et al, 1995 ; Strafella and Paus, 2000 ; Borroni et al, 2005 ; Borroni and Baldissera, 2008 ).…”

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How Do We Motorically Resonate in Aging? A Compensatory Role of Prefrontal Cortex

Tella

Blasi

Cabinio

et al. 2021

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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Aging is the major risk factor for chronic age-related neurological diseases such as neurodegenerative disorders and neurovascular injuries. Exploiting the multimodal nature of the Mirror Neuron System (MNS), rehabilitative interventions have been proposed based on motor-resonance mechanisms in recent years. Despite the considerable evidence of the MNS’ functionality in young adults, further investigation of the action-observation matching system is required in aging, where well-known structural and functional brain changes occur. Twenty-one healthy young adults (mean age 26.66y) and 19 healthy elderly participants (mean age 71.47y) underwent a single MRI evaluation including a T1-3D high-resolution and functional MRI (fMRI) with mirror task. Morphological and functional BOLD data were derived from MRI images to highlight cortical activations associated with the task; to detect differences between the two groups (Young, Elderly) in the two MRI indexes (BOLD and thickness z-scores) using mixed factorial ANOVA (Group∗Index analyses); and to investigate the presence of different cortical lateralization of the BOLD signal in the two groups. In the entire sample, the activation of a bilateral MNS fronto-parietal network was highlighted. The mixed ANOVA (pFDR-corr < 0.05) revealed significant interactions between BOLD signal and cortical thickness in left dorsal premotor cortex, right ventral premotor and prefrontal cortices. A different cortical lateralization of the BOLD signal in frontal lobe activity between groups was also found. Data herein reported suggest that age-related cortical thinning of the MNS is coupled with increased interhemispheric symmetry along with premotor and prefrontal cortex recruitment. These physiological changes of MNS resemble the aging of the motor and cognitive neural systems, suggesting specific but also common aging and compensatory mechanisms.

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How Do We Motorically Resonate in Aging? A Compensatory Role of Prefrontal Cortex

Tella

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Cabinio

et al. 2021

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“…Third, some dualists (Manzotti and Moderato 2014; Antonietti 2008) supplement their philosophical arguments for SD, by secondarily bolstering their view in light of neuroscientific data. Even non –dualists (Bennett and Hacker 2003; Rockwell 2005; Uttal 2001, 2004) recognize that neuroscientific methods are based on dualism's conceptual framework, as they take first–person reports to be privately accessible to and epistemically privileged for the reporting subject for establishing mental/physical correlations and SDists argue that this private, privileged access in one way or another provides sufficient grounds for SD.…”

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On the alleged explanatory impotence/conceptual vacuity of substance dualism

Moreland

2023

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In the last decade, there has been a notable upsurge in property (PD) and generic substance dualism (SD). By SD I mean the view that there is a spiritual substantial soul that is different from but variously related to its body. SD includes Cartesian, certain forms of late Medieval hylomorphic (e.g., Aquinas'), and Haskerian emergent SD. Nevertheless, some form of physicalism remains the majority view in philosophy of mind. Several fairly standard objections have been raised against SD, and SDists have been preoccupied with these objections. As a result, a potent objection has not been given the attention it deserves. The purpose of this article is to fill that lacuna by raising the visibility of this objection and providing plausible responses to it. First, I shall clarify the explanatory–impotence challenge and, second, provide defeaters against it. Note that several of the issues to follow apply both to PD and SD. I will focus mostly on SD, but sometimes PD is a part of the discussion in that certain arguments for and against PD indirectly affect SD. When it is important for me to note that either SD or PD is specifically being addressed, I will notify the reader.

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“…Another case of interest for action theory can be found in studies of subjects in the autistic spectrum (Klin et al, 2003; Boria et al, 2009; Gallese, 2009; Kana et al, 2014), particularly studies of deficits in the functioning of the “mirror mechanism” (Antonietti, 2013). This deficit appears related to other deficits such as atypical visual processing and encoding of social stimuli, as well as imitative behavior and the ability to share attention (for review, see Gallese et al, 2013).…”

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Pre-dispositional constitution and plastic disposition: toward a more adequate descriptive framework for the notions of habits, learning and plasticity

Güell

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Mirroring mirror neurons in an interdisciplinary debate

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

How Do We Motorically Resonate in Aging? A Compensatory Role of Prefrontal Cortex

How Do We Motorically Resonate in Aging? A Compensatory Role of Prefrontal Cortex

On the alleged explanatory impotence/conceptual vacuity of substance dualism

Pre-dispositional constitution and plastic disposition: toward a more adequate descriptive framework for the notions of habits, learning and plasticity

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