Figure 2.

Mirror neuron activity is modulated by subjective value. As presented by Caggiano et al. (2012), the figure illustrates neural activity from single cell recordings of an exemplary mirror neuron in F5 of a monkey while it was presented with three different rewards: the most rewarding treat symbolized by a banana (blue coloring), a less relished reward indicated by the pretzel (green coloring) and an non-preferred food item represented by an “X” (red coloring). Taken from: Caggiano et al. (2012).