fMRI Evidence of ‘Mirror’ Responses to Geometric Shapes

Bibliography/Bibliography of Geometric Motifs in Islamic Art: Geometric Motifs in the Mirror of Written Sources from Past to Present, Parvin Babaei and Somayeh Zadamiri

Effect of Phase-Encoding Reduction on Geometric Distortion and BOLD Signal Changes in fMRI

Introduction Echo-planar imaging (EPI) is a group of fast data acquisition methods commonly used in fMRI studies. It acquires multiple image lines in k-space after a single excitation, which leads to a very short scan time. A well-known problem with EPI is that it is more sensitive to distortions due to the used encoding scheme. Source of distortion is inhomogeneity in the static B0 field that ...

A mirror up to nature

Ilan Dinstein,* Cibu Thomas, Marlene Behrmann, and David J. Heeger (Current Biology 18, R13–R18, January 8, 2008) On page R15 of this essay, the following sentence contains a problematic citation: ‘‘This circular interpretation has been taken to such an extreme that some recent studies now interpret any fMRI response in areas vPM and aIPS—for example, fMRI responses while observing moving shape...

Mirror Neurons and (Inter)subjectivity: Typological Evidence from East Asian Languages

Language is primarily constituted by action and interaction based on sensorimotor information. This paper demonstrates the nature of subjectivity and intersubjectivity through the neural mechanism and typological evidence of sentence-final particles from East Asian languages and extends to the discussion of the relationship between them. I propose that intersubjecivity is a kind of embedded or ...

fMRI Adaptation Reveals Mirror Neurons in Human Inferior Parietal Cortex

Mirror neurons, as originally described in the macaque, have two defining properties [1, 2]: They respond specifically to a particular action (e.g., bringing an object to the mouth), and they produce their action-specific responses independent of whether the monkey executes the action or passively observes a conspecific performing the same action. In humans, action observation and action execut...