Evolution of mirror systems: a simple mechanism for complex cognitive functions
Evolution of mirror systems: a simple mechanism for complex cognitive functions
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10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06002.x
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2011-01-01
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Ferrari, Pier Francesco
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Bonini, Luca;Ferrari, Pier Francesco
镜像神经元（MN）首先在猴子中发现，随后在人类和鸟类中发现。虽然MNs被认为发挥了一些高层次的认知功能，在这里，我们提出，他们服务于一个单一的形式的感觉运动识别他人的行为。我们警告说，这个基本功能不应该混淆与高阶功能，从更广泛的皮质系统，其中MNs嵌入干。根据物种的不同，MN在不同水平的运动事件识别中发挥作用，从运动目标到精细运动，从而有助于社会学习和模仿现象。最近的研究表明，MNs编码具有前瞻性，这表明MNs在社会交往中也发挥着预测和预测他人行为的作用。与内脏反应相关的皮层下结构中存在镜像机制，以及动物中模仿现象的大量扩散表明MN系统可能比以前认为的更古老和更广泛。
Mirror neurons (MNs) were first discovered in monkeys and subsequently in humans and birds. While MNs are deemed to play a number of high-level cognitive functions, here we propose that they serve a unitary form of sensorimotor recognition of others' behavior. We caution that this basic function should not be confounded with the higher order functions that stem from the wider cortical systems in which MNs are embedded. Depending on the species, MNs function at different levels of motor event recognition, from motor goals to fine grained movements, thus contributing to social learning and imitative phenomena. Recent studies show that MNs coding has a prospective nature, suggesting that MNs also play a role in anticipating and predicting the behavior of others during social interactions. The presence of mirroring mechanisms in subcortical structures related to visceromotor reactions and the large diffusion of imitative phenomena among animals suggest that MN systems may be more ancient and widespread than previously thought.