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Maddalena Fabbri-Destro

Researcher at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Publications -  43
Citations -  3543

Maddalena Fabbri-Destro is an academic researcher from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mirror neuron & Autism. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 38 publications receiving 3139 citations. Previous affiliations of Maddalena Fabbri-Destro include University of Parma & University of Ferrara.

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Impairment of actions chains in autism and its possible role in intention understanding.

TL;DR: It is proposed that high-functioning autistic children may understand the intentions of others cognitively but lack the mechanism for understanding them experientially, because of a functional impairment in typically developing children, whereas it is impaired in children with autism.
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Mirror neurons and their clinical relevance

TL;DR: This Review discusses the relationship between mirror mechanism impairment and some core symptoms of autism, and outlines the theoretical principles of neurorehabilitation strategies based on the mirror mechanism, which are related to some features of the environmental dependency syndromes.
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Cortical Mechanisms Underlying the Organization of Goal-Directed Actions and Mirror Neuron-Based Action Understanding

TL;DR: A review of the anatomical and functional organization of the premotor and parietal areas of monkeys and humans shows that the parietal and frontal areas form circuits devoted to specific motor functions and how a specific neural mechanism is involved in understanding the action and intention of others.
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Mirror Neurons and Mirror Systems in Monkeys and Humans

TL;DR: Mirror neurons are a distinct class of neurons that transform specific sensory information into a motor format as discussed by the authors, which plays a role in action and intention understanding, imitation, speech, and emotion feeling.
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The mirror system and its role in social cognition.

TL;DR: Experiments in humans and monkeys have shown that the mirror mechanism enables the observer to understand the intention behind an observed motor act, in addition to the goal of it.