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Nature Neuroscience 12, 101 (1 February 2009) | doi:10.1038/nn0209-101

Brain reflections

Ullrich Wagner & Patrik Vuilleumier

Sometimes scientific progress emerges from accidental findings. In the 1980s a group of Italian neuroscientists in the laboratory of Giacomo Rizzolatti, in Parma, implanted microelectrodes into motor areas of monkey brains