PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - James M. Kilner
AU  - Alice Neal
AU  - Nikolaus Weiskopf
AU  - Karl J. Friston
AU  - Chris D. Frith
TI  - Evidence of Mirror Neurons in Human Inferior Frontal Gyrus
AID  - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2668-09.2009
DP  - 2009 Aug 12
TA  - The Journal of Neuroscience
PG  - 10153--10159
VI  - 29
IP  - 32
4099  - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/29/32/10153.short
4100  - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/29/32/10153.full
SO  - J. Neurosci.2009 Aug 12; 29
AB  - There is much current debate about the existence of mirror neurons in humans. To identify mirror neurons in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) of humans, we used a repetition suppression paradigm while measuring neural activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Subjects either executed or observed a series of actions. Here we show that in the IFG, responses were suppressed both when an executed action was followed by the same rather than a different observed action and when an observed action was followed by the same rather than a different executed action. This pattern of responses is consistent with that predicted by mirror neurons and is evidence of mirror neurons in the human IFG.