PSCH 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Default Mode Network, Premotor Cortex, Mirror Neuron
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Information that applies to us and our lives (how you think about yourself). Mpfc is differentially activated when processing self-referent information. Activated: self referent effect, more blook flow when thinking of self than others. How does activity in premotor cortex (pmc) differ from that in primary motor cortex (m1) differ in humans imitating facial expressions vs. observing them? premotor cortex: a secondary motor area that includes the lateral aspect of. Brodmann area 6, just anterior to the primary motor cortex. Although some neurons in the premotor cortex project to the corticospinal tract, may terminate on neurons in the primary motor cortex and help shape the forthcoming movement both are lowered from imitation to observation. Mirror neurons started off as being neurons in the motor cortex of the frontal lobe and now there is a whole interconnected system. Consequently modern society owes most of its complexities, for good and evil, to mirror neurons.
