The cortical visual system is almost universally thought to be segregated into two
anatomically and functionally distinct pathways: a ventral occipitotemporal pathway that …

About 40 years ago, James J. Gibson coined the term “affordance” to describe the action
possibilities offered to an animal by the environment with reference to the animal's action …

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly
updated fourth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student …

Highlights•Provides an up-to-date overview of human brain areas implicated in
actions.•Reviews new advances from brain decoding (multivariate pattern analysis …

The effective connectivity between 55 visual cortical regions and 360 cortical regions was
measured in 171 HCP participants using the HCP-MMP atlas, and complemented with …

How and where in the human brain high-level sensorimotor processes such as intentions
and decisions are coded remain important yet essentially unanswered questions. This is in …

Stroke patients often have flexor hypertonia and finger extensor weakness, which makes it
difficult to open their affected hand for functional grasp. Because of this impairment, hand …

Skilled grasp is a sensorimotor process requiring the brain to extract sensory cues from the
environment to shape a motor command. Although a large body of literature has focused on …

Observing others' actions recruits frontoparietal and posterior temporal brain regions–also
called the action observation network. It is typically assumed that these regions support …

Research on preparatory brain processes taking place before acting shows unexpected
connections with cognitive processing. From 50 years, we know that motor-related brain …