Greg Hickock, “Beyond Mirror Neurons” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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How Did Mirnerans Become Relevant to Speech Language?
A. First heard about mirnerans in a lecture that jacques marizelati gave, i think it was at the cognineroscience society meeting in san francisco. These cells were responding both while the monkey was generating actions and observing actions. And everyone was interested. It wasn't relevant to my work at all. Even though the mirneron folks were claiming that it had relevant to speech, i knew it couldn't be the case. I because of a condition known as brokasapasa, so when you damaged frontal motor speech circuits,.It been known since the 18 sixties that am you can disrupt the ability to produce speech quite severely, and not necessarily impair
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