Mu suppression - A good measure of the human mirror neuron system?

Cortex · 2016 · PMC4981432 · PMID 27180217

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near significancep = .054so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

One-sample t -tests found that only the hand-object videos produced mu suppression that was significantly below 0: t (60) = −2.76, p = .008 (although there was trend for near significance for the hand-no object videos: t (60) = −1.97, p = .054).

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showed a trendno p-value reported

4 , observing a hand moving without an object showed a trend in the same direction as the hand with object, but this fell short of statistical significance.

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