Current Biology
Volume 18, Issue 1, 8 January 2008, Pages R32-R33
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Action Observation: Inferring Intentions without Mirror Neurons

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A recent study has shown, using fMRI, that the mirror neuron system does not mediate action understanding when the observed action is novel or when it is hard to understand.

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