New Frontiers in Mirror Neurons Research

Venkat Subramanian, Biz India Online News This rare, one-of-a-kind book provides an excellent, integrated package of information about the mirror mechanism of the human brain, particularly mirror neurons, which control not only physical movements, but also perform numerous sophisticated acts of cognition.

Marios Kyriazis, New Frontiers in Mirror Neurons Research, Current Ageing Science, Vol 9, No 4 ...suitable for both specialist neuroscientists and others who want to learn detailed facts about the mirror mechanisms

Current Aging Science Vol. 9 Issue No. 4, Marios Kyriazis This area of research is both extremely interesting with deep implications for neuroscience, and at the same time, it generates intense debate and controversy. [New Frontiers in Mirror Neurons Research] aims to discuss this subject matter in great detail and provide a varietyof opinions and viewpoints. It does so with remarkable success.

Giacomo Rizzolatti has been President of the European Brain Behavior Society and Italian Society for Neuroscience. He is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons. His main research focus has been the role of the motor cortex in higher cognitive functions. He is member of Accademia dei Lincei, Academie des Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of several prizes: <"Golgi Prize for Physiology", "George Miller Award", <"Grawemeyer Prize>", Price of Asturias Prize for Science and Technology<" Prix J.L. Signoret in Neuropsychologie>" from the IPSEN Fondation, and the <"Brain Prize from Lundbeck Foundation>".

SECTION 1. BASIC FINDINGS AND CONCEPTS IN ACTION-PERCEPTION THEORY ; 1. The neuroanatomy of the mirror neuron system ; 2. The role of mirror neurons in goal coding and intention understanding ; 3. New properties of F5 Mirror Neurons and their implications for response selection ; 4. MEG studies in action observation ; 5. How to study the mirror neuron system with functional MRI: challenges and solutions ; SECTION 2. FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES AND EVOLUTION ; 6. Neural underpinnings of anticipatory action simulation and perception in expert brains ; 7. The mirror system in human and non-human primates: comparative functional imaging studies suggest multiple systems ; 8. On Gesture and Speech ; 9. Mirror Neurons in the Songbird Brain:A Neural Interface for Learned Vocal Communication ; 10. Mirrors match minds ; 11. Epigenetic regulation of mirror neurons' development and related evolutionary hypotheses ; SECTION 3. DEVELOPMENT ; 12. Relating the ontogeny and function of mirror neurons to perceptual learning and inference ; 13. The Mirror Neuron System and the Mu Rhythm ; 14. On the development of the mirror neuron system ; 15. Neonatal imitation and its sensory-motor mechanism ; 16. Mirroring and the ontogeny of social cognition ; SECTION 4. THEORETICAL AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS ; 17. The space of mirror ; 18. Schizophrenia, bodily selves and embodied simulation ; 19. Observing and imitating others to recover motor functions in patients with neurological disorders ; 20. Role of the Mirror Neuron System in the Pathophysiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders