Mesial frontal cortex and super mirror neurons

1 February 2008

journal article
open peer-commentary
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Vol. 31 (1) , 30
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x07003214

Abstract

Depth electrode recordings in the human mesial frontal cortex have revealed individual neurons with mirror properties. A third of these cells have excitatory properties during action execution and inhibitory properties during action observation. These cells – which we call super mirror neurons – provide the neural mechanism that implements the functions of layers 3+4 of the shared circuits model (SCM).

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