Rizzolatti G, Arbib M A
Istituto di Fisiologia Umana, Università di Parma, Italy.
Trends Neurosci. 1998 May;21(5):188-94. doi: 10.1016/s0166-2236(98)01260-0.
In monkeys, the rostral part of ventral premotor cortex (area F5) contains neurons that discharge, both when the monkey grasps or manipulates objects and when it observes the experimenter making similar actions. These neurons (mirror neurons) appear to represent a system that matches observed events to similar, internally generated actions, and in this way forms a link between the observer and the actor. Transcranial magnetic stimulation and positron emission tomography (PET) experiments suggest that a mirror system for gesture recognition also exists in humans and includes Broca's area. We propose here that such an observation/execution matching system provides a necessary bridge from'doing' to'communicating',as the link between actor and observer becomes a link between the sender and the receiver of each message.
在猴子身上，腹侧运动前区皮质（F5区）的嘴侧部分包含一些神经元，这些神经元在猴子抓握或操作物体时以及观察实验者做出类似动作时都会放电。这些神经元（镜像神经元）似乎代表了一个将观察到的事件与类似的、内在产生的动作相匹配的系统，并且以这种方式在观察者和执行者之间形成了一种联系。经颅磁刺激和正电子发射断层扫描（PET）实验表明，人类也存在一个用于手势识别的镜像系统，其中包括布洛卡区。我们在此提出，这样一个观察/执行匹配系统为从“做”到“交流”提供了必要的桥梁，因为执行者与观察者之间的联系变成了每条信息的发送者与接收者之间的联系。
