title: Social affordances: is the mirror neuron system involved?
abstract: We question the idea that the mirror neuron system is the substrate of social affordances perception, and we suggest that most of the activity seen in the parietal and premotor cortex of the human brain is independent of mirroring activity as characterized in macaques, but rather reflects a process of one's own action specification in response to social signals.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (LNC) - INSERM U960 & IEC - Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), 75005 Paris, France. guillaume.dezecache@gmail.com
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dezecache
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Conty
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grèzes
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D059167:Mirror Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D012938:Social Perception; D056345:Theory of Mind / Q000502:physiology*