sensorimotor experience and language

[Edy.Veneziano]

Elizabeth Bates wrote:
>....
>For example, Italian neurophysiologist Rizzolatti has studied
> neurons in premotor cortex that fire preferentially when the monkey is
> planning an arm movement in one particular direction (a kind of covert
> motor analogue to the line-orientation preference cells in visual cortex).
> The most interesting finding here for our purposes is that these cells
> also fire when the monkey observes someone else making an analogous
> arm movement!

IT is fascinating!
Thank you Elizabeth for sharing this with us.
At your leisure, could you send out some references?
Edy