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The paper introduces mirror neuron system II (MNS2), a new version of the MNS model (Oztop and Arbib in Biol Cybern 87 (2):116–140, 2002) of action recognition learning by mirror neurons of the macaque brain. The new model uses a recurrent architecture that is biologically more plausible than that of the original model. Moreover, MNS2 extends the capacity of the model to address data on audio-visual mirror neurons and on the response of mirror neurons when the target object was recently visible but is currently hidden.
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Bonaiuto, J., Rosta, E. & Arbib, M. Extending the mirror neuron system model, I. Biol Cybern 96, 9–38 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-006-0110-8
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