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No evidence for somatosensory attenuation during action observation of self-touch
2021-02-09
Abstract excerpt
The discovery of mirror neurons in the macaque brain in the 1990s triggered investigations on putative human mirror neurons and their potential functionality. The leading proposed function has been action understanding: accordingly, we understand the actions of others by ‘simulating’ them in our own motor system through a direct matching of the visual information to our own motor programs. Furthermore, it has been...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8bbeaf20-9e79-50a3-8199-426deb5f54f5
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.02.08.430193