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    Percept Mot Skills. 2006 Apr;102(2):600-2.

    Do mirror neurons explain misattribution of emotions in music?

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    Psychology Department, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH 44883, USA. mgridley@heidelberg.edu

    Abstract

    It is speculated that certain listeners' misattribution of anger in the music of avant garde jazz saxophonists could be explained by the activity of mirror neurons. There is a neurological basis for the human tendency to imitate what is perceived in another person. This may lead to an inference that whatever comparable activity would be required to achieve a similar condition in the imitator is the condition being experienced by the person being imitated.

    PMID:
    16826681
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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