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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Lang. 2007 Jun;101(3):260–277. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.02.008

Table 2.

Hypothesized regions of interest (ROIs; see Fig. 1 caption for the definition of ROI abbreviations and Fig. 1 for location of ROIs) that constitute the “mirror system” associated with processing observed speech-associated gestures or face movements

ROIs “Mirror system” associated with

Speech-associated gestures (Gesture) Face movements (Self-Adaptor, No-Hand-Movement, and No-Visual-Input)
POp *
PPMv * *
STp *
PPMd *
SMG *
STa *

An asterisk indicates that a region is predicted to be part of a “mirror system” involved in processing a movement. PPMv appears in both networks because it plays a role in both hand and mouth movements. See Section 2 for further explanation.