Motor simulation without motor expertise: enhanced corticospinal excitability in visually experienced dance spectators [PDF]
, 2012 The human “mirror-system” is suggested to play a crucial role in action observation and execution, and is characterized by activity in the premotor and parietal cortices during the passive observation of movements.
Pollick, FE +24 more
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Neural activation and functional connectivity during motor imagery of bimanual everyday actions [PDF]
, 2012 Bimanual actions impose intermanual coordination demands not present during unimanual actions. We investigated the functional neuroanatomical correlates of these coordination demands in motor imagery (MI) of everyday actions using functional magnetic ...
Sterr, A +16 more
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Moving just like you: motor interference depends on similar motility of agent and observer. [PDF]
, 2012 Recent findings in neuroscience suggest an overlap between brain regions involved in the execution of movement and perception of another's movement. This so-called "action-perception coupling" is supposed to serve our ability to automatically infer the ...
Helfer B. +24 more
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Impact of Auditory Context on Executed Motor Actions [PDF]
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2016 The auditory and motor systems are strongly coupled, as is evident in the specifically tight motor synchronization that occurs in response to regularly occurring auditory cues compared with cues of other modalities. Timing of rhythmic action is known to rely on multiple neural centers including the cerebellum and the basal-ganglia which have access to ...
Michal eFrenkel +8 more
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Motor coordination and executive functions [PDF]
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2012 This commentary is on the original article by Rigoli et al. on pages 1025‐1031 of this issue.
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Motor planning brings human primary somatosensory cortex into action-specific preparatory states
eLife, 2022 Motor planning plays a critical role in producing fast and accurate movement. Yet, the neural processes that occur in human primary motor and somatosensory cortex during planning, and how they relate to those during movement execution, remain poorly ...
Giacomo Ariani +2 more
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Automatic Imitation in Rhythmical Actions: Kinematic Fidelity and the Effects of Compatibility, Delay, and Visual Monitoring [PDF]
, 2012 We demonstrate that observation of everyday rhythmical actions biases subsequent motor execution of the same and of different actions, using a paradigm where the observed actions were irrelevant for action execution.
Turgeon, Martine +9 more
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Brain effective connectivity during motor-imagery and execution following stroke and rehabilitation
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2015 Brain areas within the motor system interact directly or indirectly during motor-imagery and motor-execution tasks. These interactions and their functionality can change following stroke and recovery. How brain network interactions reorganize and recover
Sahil Bajaj +3 more
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Baby steps: investigating the development of perceptual-motor couplings in infancy [PDF]
, 2014 There are cells in our motor cortex that fire both when we perform and when we observe similar actions. It has been suggested that these perceptual-motor couplings in the brain develop through associative learning during correlated sensorimotor ...
Carina C.J.M. de Klerk +10 more
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Task-specific modulation of corticospinal neuron activity during motor learning in mice
Nature Communications, 2023 Motor skill learning relies on the plasticity of the primary motor cortex as task acquisition drives cortical motor network remodeling. Large-scale cortical remodeling of evoked motor outputs occurs during the learning of corticospinal-dependent ...
Najet Serradj +7 more
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