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 shapes [10]—as being due to mirror neuron activity.’’ The citation of this particular study alone ([10], Wheatley et al.) was a mistake because although the authors of the study offered one interpretation of the fMRI activity in areas vPM and aIPS as arising from mirror neuron activity, they also offered an alternative interpretation that was overlooked by the authors of this essay. The cited study should not have been singled out, and the authors of this essay regret this error.