What modulates the Mirror Neuron System during action observation?: Multiple factors involving the action, the actor, the observer, the relationship between actor and …

D Kemmerer - Progress in Neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Revisiting the relation between syntax, action, and left BA44

D Kemmerer - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Among the many lines of research that have been exploring how embodiment contributes to
cognition, one focuses on how the neural substrates of language may be shared, or at least …

[HTML][HTML] Plant awareness in the hand

S Guerra, S Betti, L Sartori, G Zani… - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The human inability to notice plants and recognise their importance on Earth has been
termed “plant blindness”. Among the main reasons (eg, cultural and biological factors) …

How social is the cerebellum? Exploring the effects of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation on the prediction of social and physical events

V Oldrati, E Ferrari, N Butti, Z Cattaneo… - Brain Structure and …, 2021 - Springer
Congenital or acquired cerebellum alterations are associated with a complex pattern of
motor, cognitive and social disorders. These disturbances may reflect the involvement of the …

Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions

V Oldrati, N Butti, E Ferrari, Z Cattaneo… - Social cognitive and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The cerebellum causally supports social processing by generating internal models of social
events based on statistical learning of behavioral regularities. However, whether the …

The social relevance and the temporal constraints of motor resonance in humans

G Guidali, M Picardi, M Franca, A Caronni… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In humans, motor resonance effects can be tracked by measuring the enhancement of
corticospinal excitability by action observation. Uncovering factors driving motor resonance …

Decoding motor expertise from fine‐tuned oscillatory network organization

L Amoruso, S Pusil, AM García… - Human Brain …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Can motor expertise be robustly predicted by the organization of frequency‐specific
oscillatory brain networks? To answer this question, we recorded high‐density …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding grip type and action goal during the observation of reaching-gras** actions: A multivariate fMRI study

A Errante, S Ziccarelli, GP Mingolla, L Fogassi - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
During execution and observation of reaching-gras** actions, the brain must encode, at
the same time, the final action goal and the type of grip necessary to achieve it. Recently, it …

Contextual priors guide perception and motor responses to observed actions

S Betti, A Finisguerra, L Amoruso, C Urgesi - Cerebral Cortex, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In everyday-life scenarios, prior expectations provided by the context in which actions are
embedded support action prediction. However, it is still unclear how newly learned action …

[HTML][HTML] Parallel fast and slow motor inhibition processes in Joint Action coordination

P Cardellicchio, E Dolfini, L Fadiga, A D'Ausilio - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …