The mirror neuron system is more active during complementary compared with imitative action

@article{citeulike:1373046, abstract = {We assessed the role of the human mirror neuron system (MNS) in complementary actions using functional magnetic resonance imaging while participants prepared to execute imitative or complementary actions. The BOLD signal in the right inferior frontal gyrus and bilateral inferior parietal lobes was greater during preparation of complementary than during imitative actions, suggesting that the MNS may be essential in dynamically coupling action observation to action execution.}, author = {Newman-Norlund, Rd and van Schie, Ht and van Zuijlen, Amj and Bekkering, H. }, citeulike-article-id = {1373046}, journal = {Nature Neuroscience}, keywords = {dartmouth\_crew, fmri, mirror\_neuron\_system, observational\_learning}, posted-at = {2007-06-08 16:28:42}, priority = {2}, title = {The mirror neuron system is more active during complementary compared with imitative action}, url = {http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn1911.html}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1373046 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1373046 TI - The mirror neuron system is more active during complementary compared with imitative action JF - Nature Neuroscience N2 - We assessed the role of the human mirror neuron system (MNS) in complementary actions using functional magnetic resonance imaging while participants prepared to execute imitative or complementary actions. The BOLD signal in the right inferior frontal gyrus and bilateral inferior parietal lobes was greater during preparation of complementary than during imitative actions, suggesting that the MNS may be essential in dynamically coupling action observation to action execution. KW - dartmouth_crew KW - fmri KW - mirror_neuron_system KW - observational_learning AU - Newman-Norlund, Rd AU - van Schie, Ht AU - van Zuijlen, Amj AU - Bekkering, H PY - 2007/// UR - http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn1911.html ER -