Nahab Fatta B, Hattori Noriaki, Saad Ziad S, Hallett Mark
Human Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch, National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Hum Brain Mapp. 2009 May;30(5):1744-51. doi: 10.1002/hbm.20638.
We conducted a slow event-related fMRI experiment with naïve subjects' passively viewing yawn and various other control videos along with correlative behavioral testing. Specifically associated with the viewing of the contagious yawn was an area of activation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. These findings suggest a role for the prefrontal cortex in the processing of contagious yawning, while demonstrating a unique automaticity in the processing of contagious motor programs which take place independently of mirror neuron networks.
我们对未经过训练的受试者进行了一项与事件相关的慢速功能磁共振成像实验，让他们被动观看打哈欠视频和各种其他对照视频，并进行相关的行为测试。与观看传染性哈欠特别相关的是腹内侧前额叶皮质的一个激活区域。这些发现表明前额叶皮质在传染性哈欠的处理过程中发挥作用，同时证明了传染性运动程序处理过程中存在一种独特的自主性，该过程独立于镜像神经元网络发生。
