Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions
Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions
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10.1016/0926-6410(95)00038-0
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发表时间：
1996-03-01
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Fogassi, L
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作者：
Rizzolatti, G;Fadiga, L;Fogassi, L
在猴子运动前皮层的F5区，有一些神经元，当猴子执行一个动作时，以及当他观察到另一只猴子或实验者做出类似动作时，都会放电。我们在这里报告这些“镜像”神经元的一些特性，并提出它们的活动“代表”所观察到的动作。因此，我们认为，这种运动表征是理解运动事件的基础。最后，根据最近的一些数据表明，在男人，观察运动动作激活额下回的后部，我们认为，在男人的横向言语交流系统的发展来自一个更古老的通信系统的基础上识别的手和脸的姿态。
In area F5 of the monkey premotor cortex there are neurons that discharge both when the monkey performs an action and when he observes a similar action made by another monkey or by the experimenter. We report here some of the properties of these 'mirror' neurons and we propose that their activity 'represents' the observed action. We posit, then, that this motor representation is at the basis of the understanding of motor events. Finally, on the basis of some recent data showing that, in man, the observation of motor actions activate the posterior part of inferior frontal gyrus, we suggest that the development of the lateral verbal communication system in man derives from a more ancient communication system based on recognition of hand and face gestures.