The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data

• Published in: Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) Vol. 19; no. 6; pp. 1239 - 1255
• Main Authors: Gazzola, Valeria, Keysers, Christian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.06.2009; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: action; Adult; Algorithms; Brain Mapping - methods; Evoked Potentials, Motor - physiology; Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory - physiology; execution; Female; fMRI; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Middle Aged; mirror neurons; Motor Cortex - physiology; observation; Somatosensory Cortex - physiology; Task Performance and Analysis; execution; fMRI; action; mirror neurons; observation

Many neuroimaging studies of the mirror neuron system (MNS) examine if certain voxels in the brain are shared between action observation and execution (shared voxels, sVx). Unfortunately, finding sVx in standard group analyses is not a guarantee that sVx exist in individual subjects. Using unsmoothe...