Where is the semantic system? A critical review and meta-analysis of 120 functional neuroimaging studies

JR Binder, RH Desai, WW Graves, LL Conant - Cerebral cortex, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and
culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this …

The mirror-neuron system

G Rizzolatti, L Craighero - Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract A category of stimuli of great importance for primates, humans in particular, is that
formed by actions done by other individuals. If we want to survive, we must understand the …

The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

BTT Yeo, FM Krienen, J Sepulcre… - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.physiology.org
Abstract Information processing in the cerebral cortex involves interactions among
distributed areas. Anatomical connectivity suggests that certain areas form local hierarchical …

Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the understanding and imitation of action

G Rizzolatti, L Fogassi, V Gallese - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2001 - nature.com
What are the neural bases of action understanding? Although this capacity could merely
involve visual analysis of the action, it has been argued that we actually map this visual …

Neural simulation of action: a unifying mechanism for motor cognition

M Jeannerod - Neuroimage, 2001 - Elsevier
Paradigms drawn from cognitive psychology have provided new insight into covert stages of
action. These states include not only intending actions that will eventually be executed, but …

Cortical mechanisms of human imitation

M Iacoboni, RP Woods, M Brass, H Bekkering… - science, 1999 - science.org
How does imitation occur? How can the motor plans necessary for imitating an action derive
from the observation of that action? Imitation may be based on a mechanism directly …

Action observation activates premotor and parietal areas in a somatotopic manner: an fMRI study

G Buccino, F Binkofski, GR Fink… - European journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to localize brain areas that were
active during the observation of actions made by another individual. Object‐and non‐object …

Two action systems in the human brain

F Binkofski, LJ Buxbaum - Brain and language, 2013 - Elsevier
The distinction between dorsal and ventral visual processing streams, first proposed by
Ungerleider and Mishkin (1982) and later refined by Milner and Goodale (1995) has been …

Neural circuits underlying imitation learning of hand actions: an event-related fMRI study

G Buccino, S Vogt, A Ritzl, GR Fink, K Zilles, HJ Freund… - Neuron, 2004 - cell.com
The neural bases of imitation learning are virtually unknown. In the present study, we
addressed this issue using an event-related fMRI paradigm. Musically naive participants …