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Social affordances: Is the mirror neuron system involved?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2013

Guillaume Dezecache ,
Laurence Conty  and
Julie Grèzes
Guillaume Dezecache
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (LNC) – INSERM U960 & IEC – Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), 75005 Paris, France. guillaume.dezecache@gmail.com julie.grezes@ens.fr http://www.grezes.ens.fr/people.php?id=7 http://www.grezes.ens.fr/people.php?id=1
Laurence Conty
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Psychopathology and Neuropsychology – LPN EA2027, Université Paris 8, 93526 Saint-Denis, France. laurence.conty@univ-paris8.fr https://sites.google.com/site/laurenceconty/
Julie Grèzes
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (LNC) – INSERM U960 & IEC – Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), 75005 Paris, France. guillaume.dezecache@gmail.com julie.grezes@ens.fr http://www.grezes.ens.fr/people.php?id=7 http://www.grezes.ens.fr/people.php?id=1
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Abstract

We question the idea that the mirror neuron system is the substrate of social affordances perception, and we suggest that most of the activity seen in the parietal and premotor cortex of the human brain is independent of mirroring activity as characterized in macaques, but rather reflects a process of one's own action specification in response to social signals.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , August 2013 , pp. 417 - 418
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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