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Contagious yawning and the frontal lobe: An fMRI study

✍ Scribed by Fatta B. Nahab; Noriaki Hattori; Ziad S. Saad; Mark Hallett

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
282 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
1065-9471

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We conducted a slow event‐related fMRI experiment with naΓ―ve subjects' passively viewing yawn and various other control videos along with correlative behavioral testing. Specifically associated with the viewing of the contagious yawn was an area of activation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. These findings suggest a role for the prefrontal cortex in the processing of contagious yawning, while demonstrating a unique automaticity in the processing of contagious motor programs which take place independently of mirror neuron networks. Hum Brain Mapp 2009. Β© 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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