Karen L Lindsay, Jennifer Kennedy, Daniel Kim, Ankush Kalra, Nimisha K Parekh
Development of a Culinary Medicine Curriculum to Support Nutrition Knowledge for Gastroenterology Fellows and Faculty
Nutrients
humans permanently monitor others behaviour reason goals intentions recent studies provided evidence suggesting simple mechanism might underlie functions observing stereotypic actions others goal inference seems work internal simulation actions self however less known functional mechanisms brain areas involved inferring goals others actions actions stereotypic investigated neural processes involved goal inference processing simple nonstereotypic actions using functional brain imaging developed paradigm compared four simple finger lifting movements differed plausibility intentionality varied action context found three regions seem involved goal inference processing nonstereotypic implausible actions 1 superior temporal sulcus 2 right inferior parietal cortex junction posterior temporal cortex tpj 3 angular gyrus inferior parietal lobule line teleological reasoning accounts action understanding inferring others goals nonstereotypic actions seems outcome contextsensitive inferential processing agreement previous findings found mirror system strongly activated intentionally produced actions iacoboni molnarszakacs gallese v buccino g mazziotta jc rizzolatti g 2005 grasping intentions others ones mirror neuron system plos biol 3 e79 indicating involvement ifg representing intentional actions findings support idea goal inference processing nonstereotypic actions primarily mediated reasoning action context rather direct mapping process via mirror system