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 …

Mirror neurons (MNs) are a fascinating class of cells originally discovered in the ventral
premotor cortex (PMv) and, subsequently, in the inferior parietal lobule (IPL) of the macaque …

The nervous system is sensitive to statistical regularities of the external world and forms
internal models of these regularities to predict environmental dynamics. Given the inherently …

How the human brain controls hand movements to carry out different tasks is still debated.
The concept of synergy has been proposed to indicate functional modules that may simplify …

What mechanisms distinguish interactive from non-interactive actions? To answer this
question we tested participants while they took turns playing music with a virtual partner: in …

Videos are commonly used to support learning of new skills, to improve existing skills, and
as a source of motivation for training. Video self-modelling (VSM) is a learning technique …

In daily life, we do not just move independently from how others move. Rather, the way we
move conveys information about our cognitive and affective attitudes toward our …

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have shown that observing an action
induces activity in the onlooker's motor system. In light of the muscle specificity and time …

Motor inhibition is essential to adapt to an ever-changing environment and to noise in state
prediction. As a consequence, inhibitory motor control must also play a key role during Joint …

It is likely that when using an artificially augmented hand with six fingers, the natural five plus
a robotic one, corticospinal motor synergies controlling gras** actions might be different …