Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: a meta-analysis

F Van Overwalle, K Baetens - Neuroimage, 2009 - Elsevier
This meta-analysis explores the role of the mirror and mentalizing systems in the
understanding of other people's action goals. Based on over 200 fMRI studies, this analysis …

Imaging the premotor areas

N Picard, PL Strick - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2001 - Elsevier
Recent imaging studies of motor function provide new insights into the organization of the
premotor areas of the frontal lobe. The pre-supplementary motor area and the rostral portion …

Three-dimensional locations and boundaries of motor and premotor cortices as defined by functional brain imaging: a meta-analysis

MA Mayka, DM Corcos, SE Leurgans, DE Vaillancourt - Neuroimage, 2006 - Elsevier
The mesial premotor cortex (pre-supplementary motor area and supplementary motor area
proper), lateral premotor cortex (dorsal premotor cortex and ventral premotor cortex), and …

[HTML][HTML] Imagery of voluntary movement of fingers, toes, and tongue activates corresponding body-part-specific motor representations

HH Ehrsson, S Geyer, E Naito - Journal of neurophysiology, 2003 - journals.physiology.org
We investigate whether imagery of voluntary movements of different body parts activates
somatotopical sections of the human motor cortices. We used functional magnetic …

From mouth to hand: gesture, speech, and the evolution of right-handedness

MC Corballis - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2003 - cambridge.org
The strong predominance of right-handedness appears to be a uniquely human
characteristic, whereas the left-cerebral dominance for vocalization occurs in many species …

Activations related to “mirror” and “canonical” neurones in the human brain: an fMRI study

U Castiello - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2005 - nature.com
People have always been fascinated by the exquisite precision and flexibility of the human
hand. When hand meets object, we confront the overlap** worlds of sensorimotor and …

Motor and cognitive functions of the ventral premotor cortex

G Rizzolatti, L Fogassi, V Gallese - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2002 - Elsevier
Recent data show that the ventral premotor cortex in both humans and monkeys has motor
and cognitive functions. The cognitive functions include space perception, action …

A distributed left hemisphere network active during planning of everyday tool use skills

SH Johnson-Frey, R Newman-Norlund… - Cerebral …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Determining the relationship between mechanisms involved in action planning and/or
execution is critical to understanding the neural bases of skilled behaviors, including tool …

Age‐related changes in the neural correlates of motor performance

NS Ward, RSJ Frackowiak - Brain, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Age‐related neurodegenerative and neurochemical changes are thought to underlie decline
in motor and cognitive functions, but compensatory processes in cortical and subcortical …