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| ArticleTitle | Mirror system and a brain network for social cognition |
| Language | J |
| AuthorList | Kenji Ogawa |
| Affiliation | Department of Psychology, Hokkaido University |
| Publication | Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 30 (4), 277-283, 2014 |
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| Abstract | The discovery of mirror neurons, together with the subsequent researches of the human mirror neuron system, has greatly contributed to the development of social cognitive neuroscience, by bridging the gap between neuroscience and social cognition. While the mirror neuron was originally found in the ventral premotor cortex in monkeys, the human mirror neuron system is regarded as a broader brain network consisted of the visual dorsal pathway as well as the regions for social cognition. As the discovery of mirror neurons and that of fMRI was both taken place in the early 1990s, the studies of mirror system have been greatly influenced by the progress in fMRI research. This paper introduces a social cognitive network including the mirror system, by reviewing the current status of mirror system researches. |
| Keywords | mirror system, action observation, social cognition, functional MRI |
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