The effect of handedness on mental rotation of hands: a systematic review and meta-analysis

HG Jones, FA Braithwaite, LM Edwards… - Psychological …, 2021 - Springer
Body-specific mental rotation is thought to rely upon internal representations of motor
actions. Handedness is a source of distinctly different motor experience that shapes the …

Towards strong inference in research on embodiment–possibilities and limitations of causal paradigms

M Ostarek, R Bottini - Journal of Cognition, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A central question in the cognitive sciences is which role embodiment plays for high-level
cognitive functions, such as conceptual processing. Here, we propose that one reason why …

Typical action perception and interpretation without motor simulation

G Vannuscorps, A Caramazza - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2016 - pnas.org
Every day, we interact with people synchronously, immediately understand what they are
doing, and easily infer their mental state and the likely outcome of their actions from their …

Lifelong learning of cognitive styles for physical problem-solving: The effect of embodied experience

KR Allen, KA Smith, LA Bird, JB Tenenbaum… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract 'Embodied cognition'suggests that our bodily experiences broadly shape our
cognitive capabilities. We study how embodied experience affects the abstract physical …

Prior knowledge biases the visual memory of body postures

Q Han, M Gandolfo, MV Peelen - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Body postures provide information about others' actions, intentions, and emotions. Little is
known about how postures are represented in the visual system. Considering our extensive …

Efficient recognition of facial expressions does not require motor simulation

G Vannuscorps, M Andres, A Caramazza - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
What mechanisms underlie facial expression recognition? A popular hypothesis holds that
efficient facial expression recognition cannot be achieved by visual analysis alone but …

Performing the hand laterality judgement task does not necessarily require motor imagery

A Mibu, S Kan, T Nishigami, Y Fu**o, M Shibata - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
When people judge the laterality of rotated hand images, that is they perform the laterality
judgement task (LJT), they are thought to use motor imagery. However, recent studies have …

Large-scale organization of the hand action observation network in individuals born without hands

G Vannuscorps, MF Wurm, E Striem-Amit… - Cerebral …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The human high-level visual cortex comprises regions specialized for the processing of
distinct types of stimuli, such as objects, animals, and human actions. How does this …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment and brain training of patients experiencing head and facial pain with a distortion of orofacial somatorepresentation: a narrative review

H von Piekartz, A Paris-Alemany - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The management of patients experiencing chronic orofacial pain is a great challenge, due to
the complexity of chronic pain itself, combined with an increased peripheral sensitization in …

Motor imagery impairment in postacute stroke patients

N Braun, C Kranczioch, J Liepert, C Dettmers… - Neural …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Not much is known about how well stroke patients are able to perform motor imagery (MI)
and which MI abilities are preserved after stroke. We therefore applied three different MI …