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  • Chapter 19 - Neuronal Overlap during Observation and Action

  • from Part IV - Neurobiological Theories
  • Falk Huettig, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Looking Ahead
    Published online:
    20 March 2025
    Print publication:
    06 March 2025, pp 208-219

  • Summary

    Mirror neurons fire while both performing and observing an action and enable us to understand and predict what others are doing. This function arises because a) the visual-motor matching of mirror neurons are a consequence of stimulus-response mapping mechanisms that transform sensory input of observing someone else’s action into a matching motor response, or b) we understand what we have done ourselves and what others are doing simply because action and action observation are coded in the same representational format, and mirror neurons are an instantiation of such common coding.