The neural mechanisms of manual dexterity

AR Sobinov, SJ Bensmaia - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
The hand endows us with unparalleled precision and versatility in our interactions with
objects, from mundane activities such as gras** to extraordinary ones such as virtuoso …

The neural network of motor imagery: an ALE meta-analysis

S Hétu, M Grégoire, A Saimpont, MP Coll… - Neuroscience & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Motor imagery (MI) or the mental simulation of action is now increasingly being studied
using neuroimaging techniques such as positron emission tomography and functional …

Motor imagery involves predicting the sensory consequences of the imagined movement

K Kilteni, BJ Andersson, C Houborg… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Research on motor imagery has identified many similarities between imagined and
executed actions at the behavioral, physiological and neural levels, thus supporting their …

[LIVRE][B] The neurobiology of the prefrontal cortex: anatomy, evolution, and the origin of insight

RE Passingham, SP Wise - 2012 - books.google.com
The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded
dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a …

Embodied simulation: From neurons to phenomenal experience

V Gallese - Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, 2005 - Springer
The same neural structures involved in the unconscious modeling of our acting body in
space also contribute to our awareness of the lived body and of the objects that the world …

[CITATION][C] Motor Cognition: What Actions Tell the Self

M Jeannerod - 2006 - books.google.com
Our ability to acknowledge and recognise our own identity-our'self'-is a characteristic
doubtless unique to humans. Where does this feeling come from? How does the …

Listening to action-related sentences activates fronto-parietal motor circuits

M Tettamanti, G Buccino, MC Saccuman… - Journal of cognitive …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Observing actions made by others activates the cortical circuits responsible for the planning
and execution of those same actions. This observation–execution matching system (mirror …

Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production

SM Wilson, AP Saygin, MI Sereno, M Iacoboni - Nature neuroscience, 2004 - nature.com
To examine the role of motor areas in speech perception, we carried out a functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in which subjects listened passively to …

Visual and kinesthetic modes affect motor imagery classification in untrained subjects

P Chholak, G Niso, VA Maksimenko, SA Kurkin… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The understanding of neurophysiological mechanisms responsible for motor imagery (MI) is
essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and bioprosthetics. Our …

The power of simulation: imagining one's own and other's behavior

J Decety, J Grèzes - Brain research, 2006 - Elsevier
A large number of cognitive neuroscience studies point to the similarities in the neural
circuits activated during the generation, imagination, as well as observation of one's own …