Contemporary strategies to promote motor recovery following stroke focus on repetitive
voluntary movements. Although successful movement relies on efficient sensorimotor …

Seeing an agent perform an action typically triggers a motor simulation of that action in the
observer's Mirror Neuron System (MNS). Over the past few years, it has become increasingly …

Empathy describes an individual's ability to understand and feel the other. In this article, we
review recent theoretical approaches to the study of empathy. Recent evidence supports 2 …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Spike-timing-dependent plasticity is considered the neurophysiological basis of Hebbian
learning and has been shown to be sensitive to both contingency and contiguity between …

It is currently debated whether the meanings of words and objects are represented, in whole
or in part, in a modality-specific format–the embodied cognition hypothesis. I argue that the …

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have shown that cortico-cortical paired
associative stimulation (ccPAS) can strengthen connectivity between the ventral premotor …

Facial mimicry is commonly defined as the tendency to imitate—at a sub-threshold level—
facial expressions of other individuals. Numerous studies support a role of facial mimicry in …

Aging is commonly associated with a decline in motor control and neural plasticity. Tuning
cortico–cortical interactions between premotor and motor areas is essential for controlling …

Background Making sense of others' actions relies on the activation of an action observation
network (AON), which maps visual information about observed actions onto the observer's …