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Action recognition in the premotor cortex. By Vittorio Gallese, Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi and Giacomo Rizzolatti. Brain 1996: 119; 593–609.
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Dogma—following Karl Brodmann's studies from the early 1900s—teaches that the agranular cortex of the primate frontal lobe consists of area 4 containing giant pyramidal neurons and area 6 which does not; to which can be added a functional classification of primary (area 4 and the lateral part of area 6) and supplementary motor cortex (the medial component of area 6). But this is overly simplified and a variety of anatomical methodologies (immunohistochemistry, neurochemistry and hodology, inter alia) have revealed a mosaic of structures in the agranular frontal region to which distinct functional properties can be assigned. The classical view of the premotor cortex as the orchestrator strictly of motor control is now supplemented by evidence for its role in cognitive and behavioural functions—coding space, decoding the intrinsic properties of objects and contributing to associative learning. But special attention should be paid to F5, lying immediately caudal to the inferior
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Brain 1996 119: 593-609.[Abstract]