Topic: insular activation

Body movement conveys important information about agents’ internal states, such as their emotions or intentions. But how do humans use movement cues to understand others? A growing body of behavioural and neuroimaging work suggests that we map observed actions onto our own motor system to successfully interpret others’ movements, and that movement similarity between an agent and observer facilitates accurate inferences about the agent’s internal state. A network of frontal, parietal and occipitotemporal regions, termed the action-observation network (AON), is presumed to subserve this coupling