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Contagious yawning and the frontal lobe: An fMRI study
2009
Human Brain Mapping
We conducted a slow event-related fMRI experiment with naïve subjects' passively viewing yawn and various other control videos along with correlative behavioral testing. Specifically associated with the viewing of the contagious yawn was an area of activation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. These findings suggest a role for the prefrontal cortex in the processing of contagious yawning, while demonstrating a unique automaticity in the processing of contagious motor programs which take place independently of mirror neuron networks.
doi:10.1002/hbm.20638
pmid:18937281
pmcid:PMC4758456
fatcat:fnlrebtkejhxhiylz3u3qps724