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Mirror Neurons

Mirror Neurons is a neuronal cell type that belongs to the class of motor neurons and is distinguished by its activation both during the execution of a motor action and during the observation of the same action performed by another individual.

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1.6K

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633

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2017–2026

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564

Action recognition in the premotor cortex

Vittorio Gallese, Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi et al. · Brain · 1996 · 4.9K citations · Full text

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Hearing Sounds, Understanding Actions: Action Representation in Mirror Neurons

E. Kohler, Christian Keysers, Maria Alessandra Umiltà et al. · Science · 2002 · 1.8K citations

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The 'shared manifold' hypothesis: From mirror neurons to empathy

Vittorio Gallese · 2001 · 741 citations

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Mirror neurons responding to the observation of ingestive and communicative mouth actions in the monkey ventral premotor cortex

Pier Francesco Ferrari, Vittorio Gallese, Giacomo Rizzolatti et al. · European Journal of Neuroscience · 2003 · 735 citations

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The anthropomorphic brain: The mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions

Valeria Gazzola, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Bruno Wicker et al. · NeuroImage · 2007 · 726 citations

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Authors

1.6K

  1. LF
    Leonardo Fogassi

    University of Parma, Italy

    28 publications · 10.8K citations

    23

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  2. PF
    Pier Francesco Ferrari

    University of Parma, Italy

    19 publications · 2.6K citations

    16

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  3. VG
    Vittorio Gallese

    University of Parma, Italy

    13 publications · 10.2K citations

    13

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  4. CK
    Christian Keysers

    Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Netherlands

    12 publications · 4.8K citations

    12

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  5. CC
    Caroline Catmur

    King's College London, United Kingdom

    11 publications · 1.3K citations

    11

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Institutions

633

  1. University of Parma

    Parma, Italy

    35 h-index

    127 publications

    25.9K citations

  2. Italian Institute of Technology

    Genoa, Italy

    22 h-index

    48 publications

    5.1K citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    19 h-index

    49 publications

    11.6K citations

  4. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    15 h-index

    27 publications

    2K citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    13 h-index

    24 publications

    2.8K citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    12 h-index

    29 publications

    2.9K citations

  7. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    11 h-index

    22 publications

    4.7K citations

  8. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    10 h-index

    49 publications

    2.7K citations

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Venues

  1. NeuroImage

    19 publications · 3.1K citations

    18

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  2. PLoS ONE

    15 publications · 992 citations

    14

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  3. Journal of Neuroscience

    13 publications · 2.5K citations

    13

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  4. European Journal of Neuroscience

    EJN · 15 publications · 2K citations

    13

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  5. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

    13 publications · 526 citations

    12

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