A causal role for frontal cortico-cortical coordination in social action monitoring

Social interactions require monitoring others’ actions to optimally organise one’s own actions. Here, the authors show that the pathway from the ventral premotor cortex (PMv) to the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) is causally involved in monitoring observed, but not executed, actions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Taihei Ninomiya, Atsushi Noritake, Kenta Kobayashi, Masaki Isoda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19026-y