Classical studies suggest that the anterior intraparietal area (AIP) contributes to the encoding of specific information such as objects and actions of self and others, through a variety of neuronal classes, such as canonical, motor and mirror neurons. However, these studies typically focused on a single variable, leaving it unclear whether distinct sets of AIP neurons encode a single or multiple sources of information and how multimodal coding emerges. Here, we chronically recorded monkey AIP neurons in a variety of tasks and conditions classically employed in separate experiments. Most cells exhibited mixed selectivity for observed objects, executed actions, and observed actions, enhanced when this information came from the monkey's peripersonal working space. In contrast with the classical view, our findings indicate that multimodal coding emerges in AIP from partially-mixed selectivity of individual neurons for a variety of information relevant for planning actions directed to both physical objects and other subjects.

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