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The interpretation of mu suppression as an index of mirror neuron activity: past, present and future
- Abstract:
- Mu suppression studies have been widely used to infer the activity of the human mirror neuron system (MNS) in a number of processes, ranging from action understanding, language, empathy and the development of autism spectrum disorders. Although mu suppression is enjoying a resurgence of interest, it has a long history. This review aimed to revisit mu’s past, and examine its recent use to investigate MNS involvement in language, social processes and autism spectrum disorders. Mu suppression studies have largely failed to produce robust evidence for the role of the MNS in these domains. Several key potential shortcomings with the use and interpretation of mu suppression, documented in the older literature and highlighted by more recent reports, are explored here.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1098/rsos.160662
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- Royal Society
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- Royal Society Open Science More from this journal
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 3
- Article number:
- 160662
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-01
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2054-5703
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2054-5703
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- Hobson and Bishop
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- 2017
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Copyright © 2017 The Authors.
Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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