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 …

Atypical structural and functional motor networks in autism

DL Floris, H Howells - Progress in Brain Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Structural and functional differences between the two cerebral hemispheres constitute one
of the most fundamental aspects of brain organization. It is well established that functions …

Behavior considered as an enabling constraint

V Raja, ML Anderson - Neural mechanisms: New challenges in the …, 2021 - Springer
Two fundamental challenges of contemporary neuroscience are to make sense of the scalar
relations in the nervous system and to understand the way behavior emerges from these …

Resonance and radical embodiment

V Raja - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
One big challenge faced by cognitive science is the development of a unified theory that
integrates disparate scales of analysis of cognitive phenomena. In this paper, I offer a unified …

Move like everyone is watching: Social context affects head motion and gaze in string quartet performance

L Bishop, V Gonzalez Sanchez, B Laeng… - Journal of New Music …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Ensemble musicians engage with each other visually through glances and body motion. We
conducted a case study to test how string quartet musicians would respond to playing …

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 …

The role of attention in human motor resonance

G Puglisi, A Leonetti, A Landau, L Fornia, G Cerri… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Observation of others' actions evokes in primary motor cortex and spinal circuits of observers
a subliminal motor resonance response, which reflects the motor program encoding …

Directing visual attention during action observation modulates corticospinal excitability

DJ Wright, G Wood, ZC Franklin, B Marshall, M Riach… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) research has shown that corticospinal excitability is
facilitated during the observation of human movement. However, the relationship between …

[HTML][HTML] Motor resonance during action observation is gaze-contingent: A TMS study

G D'Innocenzo, CC Gonzalez, AV Nowicky… - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
When we observe others performing an action, visual input to our mirror neuron system is
reflected in the facilitation of primary motor cortex (M1), a phenomenon known as 'motor …

[HTML][HTML] Observation of an action with a congruent contextual background facilitates corticospinal excitability: A combined TMS and eye-tracking experiment

M Riach, PS Holmes, ZC Franklin, DJ Wright - Neuropsychologia, 2018 - Elsevier
Action observation produces activity in similar regions of the brain to those involved in action
execution and can offer an effective intervention for motor (re) learning, although optimal …