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Visuo-motor integration and control in the human posterior parietal cortex: evidence from TMS and fMRIMarco Iacoboni
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:2691-9. 2006..Finally, visuo-motor inter-hemispheric transfer through parietal callosal fibers occurs at the level of 'motor intention'...- The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunctionMarco Iacoboni
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 7:942-51. 2006..Here, we review the neurophysiology of the mirror neuron system and its role in social cognition and discuss the clinical implications of mirror neuron dysfunction... 
Neurobiology of imitationMarco Iacoboni
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 660 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
Curr Opin Neurobiol 19:661-5. 2009..The existing data suggest that both perceptual and motor aspects of imitation follow organizing principles that originally belonged to the motor system...
The neural correlates of social attention: automatic orienting to social and nonsocial cuesDeanna J Greene
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychol Res 73:499-511. 2009..peripheral). These results suggest an evolutionary trajectory for automatic orienting, from predominantly subcortical mechanisms for nonsocial orienting to predominantly cortical mechanisms for social orienting...- Lateralization of the human mirror neuron systemLisa Aziz-Zadeh
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Neurosci 26:2964-70. 2006..The left hemisphere superiority for language, then, must be have been favored by other types of language precursors, perhaps auditory or multimodal action representations... - Left hemisphere motor facilitation in response to manual action soundsLisa Aziz-Zadeh
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA, 660 Charles E Young Dr South, Los Angeles, CA90095 7085, USA
Eur J Neurosci 19:2609-12. 2004..This facilitation was exclusively lateralized to the left hemisphere, the dominant hemisphere for language. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that action coding may be a precursor of language... - Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in childrenJennifer H Pfeifer
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7085, USA
Neuroimage 39:2076-85. 2008..These findings suggest that simulation mechanisms and the MNS may indeed be relevant to social functioning in everyday life during typical human development... - Age related differences in the neural substrates of motor sequence learning after interleaved and repetitive practiceChien Ho Lin
Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7332, USA
Neuroimage 62:2007-20. 2012..Older adults may engage compensatory mechanisms during interleaved practice such as increasing sensorimotor recruitment which in turn benefits learning... - Atypical neural networks for social orienting in autism spectrum disordersDeanna J Greene
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Neuroimage 56:354-62. 2011.... - Self-face recognition activates a frontoparietal "mirror" network in the right hemisphere: an event-related fMRI studyLucina Q Uddin
Department of Psychology, University of California, Box 951563, B627 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Neuroimage 25:926-35. 2005..We provide a model that reconciles these findings and previously published work to account for the modulations in these two networks previously implicated in social cognition... - Multimodal action representation in human left ventral premotor cortexJonas T Kaplan
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Cogn Process 8:103-13. 2007..This function may be an important precursor of language functions... - The self across the senses: an fMRI study of self-face and self-voice recognitionJonas T Kaplan
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 3:218-23. 2008..These data suggest that the right IFG is concerned with processing self-related stimuli across multiple sensory modalities and that it may contribute to an abstract self-representation... - Spatial attention and interhemispheric visuomotor integration in the absence of the corpus callosumEric Mooshagian
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
Neuropsychologia 47:933-7. 2009..Anterior commissure and interhemispheric cortico-subcortical pathways are likely implicated in these effects... - Brain-behavior correlates of optimizing learning through interleaved practiceChien Ho Janice Lin
Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Neuroimage 56:1758-72. 2011..This demonstrates that interleaved practice induces interrelated changes in both cortical hemodynamic responses and M1 excitability, which likely index the formation of enhanced memory traces and efficient long-term retrieval... - Failure to deactivate in autism: the co-constitution of self and otherMarco Iacoboni
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 10:431-3. 2006..This new finding indicates that a core deficit in autism might be related to the construal of a sense of self in its relationship with others and will certainly generate exciting new research on the neurobiology of autism... - Single-neuron responses in humans during execution and observation of actionsRoy Mukamel
Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Curr Biol 20:750-6. 2010..These findings suggest that multiple systems in humans may be endowed with neural mechanisms of mirroring for both the integration and differentiation of perceptual and motor aspects of actions performed by self and others... - Enhanced motor learning in older adults is accompanied by increased bilateral frontal and fronto-parietal connectivityChien Ho Janice Lin
Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7332, USA
Brain Connect 2:56-68. 2012..These data suggest that though younger and older gain similar behavioral benefits from interleaved training, aging may alter the operation of brain networks underlying such optimized learning... - Do you see what I mean? Corticospinal excitability during observation of culture-specific gesturesIstvan Molnar-Szakacs
Center for the Biology of Creativity, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA FPR UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
PLoS ONE 2:e626. 2007..The latter result cannot be interpreted simply as an effect of ethnic ingroup familiarity. Thus, a likely explanation of these findings is that motor resonance is modulated by interacting biological and cultural factors... - Mirror neuron system: basic findings and clinical applicationsMarco Iacoboni
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Ann Neurol 62:213-8. 2007..Strategies inspired by mirror neuron research recently have been used in the treatment of autism and in motor rehabilitation after stroke... - Getting a grip on other minds: mirror neurons, intention understanding, and cognitive empathyJonas T Kaplan
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Soc Neurosci 1:175-83. 2006..These data suggest that human mirror neuron areas use both contextual and grasping type information to predict the intentions of others. They also suggest that mirror neuron activity is strongly linked to social competence... - Imitation, empathy, and mirror neuronsMarco Iacoboni
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Social Behavior, Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 60:653-70. 2009.... - The essential role of Broca's area in imitationMarc Heiser
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Eur J Neurosci 17:1123-8. 2003..This suggests that Broca's area is a premotor region essential to finger movement imitation... - Right-hemisphere motor facilitation by self-descriptive personality-trait wordsIstvan Molnar-Szakacs
UCLA Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Eur J Neurosci 21:2000-6. 2005..The results are discussed in terms of the notion that the right hemisphere plays a dominant role in both self-relevant processing and the processing of affective stimuli... - Beyond superior temporal cortex: intersubject correlations in narrative speech comprehensionStephen M Wilson
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:230-42. 2008..This extended network of regions may be important for higher-level linguistic processes, and interfaces with extralinguistic cognitive, affective, and interpersonal systems... - The essential role of premotor cortex in speech perceptionIngo G Meister
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Curr Biol 17:1692-6. 2007..These results show that the disruption of human premotor cortex impairs speech perception, thus demonstrating an essential role of premotor cortices in perceptual processes... - The self and social cognition: the role of cortical midline structures and mirror neuronsLucina Q Uddin
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951563, 1285 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 11:153-7. 2007..The neural systems of midline structures and mirror neurons show that self and other are two sides of the same coin, whether their physical interactions or their most internal mental processes are examined... - The neural correlates of religious and nonreligious beliefSam Harris
UCLA Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 4:e0007272. 2009..Our lab previously has used functional neuroimaging to study belief as a general mode of cognition [1], and others have looked specifically at religious belief [2]. However, no research has compared these two states of mind directly... - Observing complex action sequences: The role of the fronto-parietal mirror neuron systemIstvan Molnar-Szakacs
UCLA Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Neuroimage 33:923-35. 2006..We also discuss the results in terms of the links between mirror neurons, language development and evolution... - Hemispheric sensitivity to body stimuli in simple reaction timeLisa Aziz-Zadeh
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 9005 7085, USA
Exp Brain Res 170:116-21. 2006..The results support an automatic and implicit processing of visual stimuli within motor representations even when no recognition of, or decision about, the stimulus is necessary... - Modulation of cortical activity during different imitative behaviorsLisa Koski
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Neurophysiol 89:460-71. 2003..Moreover, activity in the SMA appears to be tightly coupled to frontoparietal mirror areas when subjects copy the actions of others... - Beyond a single area: motor control and language within a neural architecture encompassing Broca's areaMarco Iacoboni
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, CA 90095, USA
Cortex 42:503-6. 2006.... - Interhemispheric visuo-motor integration in humans: the role of the superior parietal cortexMarco Iacoboni
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Neuropsychiatric and Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7085, USA
Neuropsychologia 42:419-25. 2004..These data suggest a critical role of the superior parietal cortex in interhemispheric visuo-motor integration... - Us versus them: Political attitudes and party affiliation influence neural response to faces of presidential candidatesJonas T Kaplan
Ahamnson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, 660 Charles Young Drive South, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:55-64. 2007.... - Functional segregation within pars opercularis of the inferior frontal gyrus: evidence from fMRI studies of imitation and action observationIstvan Molnar-Szakacs
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, 660 Charles Young Dr South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Cereb Cortex 15:986-94. 2005..This large dataset suggests a functional parcellation of the IFG that we discuss in terms of human mirror areas and the computational motor control architecture of internal models... - "Aha!": The neural correlates of verbal insight solutionsLisa Aziz-Zadeh
Department of Occupational Sciences, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 2520, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 30:908-16. 2009..These areas are discussed with their possible role in evaluation and metacognition of insight solutions, as well as attention and monitoring during insight... - Grasping the intentions of others with one's own mirror neuron systemMarco Iacoboni
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
PLoS Biol 3:e79. 2005..To ascribe an intention is to infer a forthcoming new goal, and this is an operation that the motor system does automatically... - Exploring the contributions of premotor and parietal cortex to spatial compatibility using image-guided TMSLisa Koski
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7085, USA
Neuroimage 24:296-305. 2005..We conclude that the left premotor cortex is one of the cortical regions responsible for overriding automatic stimulus-response associations... - Neural responses to non-native phonemes varying in producibility: evidence for the sensorimotor nature of speech perceptionStephen M Wilson
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, 660 Young Drive South, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
Neuroimage 33:316-25. 2006..These 'motor' categorizations would then be compared to the acoustic input in auditory areas. The data suggest that speech perception is neither purely sensory nor motor, but rather a sensorimotor process... - Culture and neuroscience: additive or synergistic?Elizabeth A Reynolds Losin
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:148-58. 2010.... - The role of task history in simple reaction time to lateralized light flashesEric Mooshagian
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
Neuropsychologia 46:659-64. 2008..Thus, the seemingly inconsistent results of previous studies can be reconciled by taking into account differences in task history across studies... - rTMS to the right inferior parietal lobule disrupts self-other discriminationLucina Q Uddin
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 1:65-71. 2006..It appears that activity in the right IPL is essential to the task, thus providing for the first time evidence for a causal relation between a human brain area and this high-level cognitive capacity... - Are cortical motor maps based on body parts or coordinated actions? Implications for embodied semanticsLeonardo Fernandino
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Dept of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Brain Lang 112:44-53. 2010..We review neurophysiological and neuroimaging data supporting this hypothesis and discuss ways in which this framework can be used to further test the links between neural mirroring and linguistic processing... - Understanding emotions in others: mirror neuron dysfunction in children with autism spectrum disordersMirella Dapretto
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 90095, USA
Nat Neurosci 9:28-30. 2006..Notably, activity in this area was inversely related to symptom severity in the social domain, suggesting that a dysfunctional 'mirror neuron system' may underlie the social deficits observed in autism... - Early semantic and phonological effects on temporal- and muscle-specific motor resonanceIngo G Meister
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, 660 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Eur J Neurosci 36:2391-9. 2012..Furthermore, the timing of the semantic effect suggests that motor activation during semantic processing is not an 'epiphenomenon' but rather is essential to the construction of meaning... - Correlation between motor and phosphene thresholds: a transcranial magnetic stimulation studyChoi Deblieck
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 29:662-70. 2008..They also provide a rationale for the use of easily obtained aMT to calibrate TMS intensities in brain mapping studies that employ TMS in cortical regions besides motor cortex... - Neural mechanisms of empathy in humans: a relay from neural systems for imitation to limbic areasLaurie Carr
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:5497-502. 2003..We understand what others feel by a mechanism of action representation that allows empathy and modulates our emotional content. The insula plays a fundamental role in this mechanism... - Reduced functional integration and segregation of distributed neural systems underlying social and emotional information processing in autism spectrum disordersJeffrey D Rudie
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 660 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7085, USA
Cereb Cortex 22:1025-37. 2012..We propose that a systems-level approach-whereby the integration and segregation of large-scale brain networks in ASD is examined in relation to typical development-may provide a more detailed characterization of the neural basis of ASD... - Race modulates neural activity during imitationElizabeth A Reynolds Losin
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7085, USA
Neuroimage 59:3594-603. 2012..Our findings represent a first step in elucidating neural mechanisms involved in cultural learning, a process that influences almost every aspect of our lives but has thus far received little neuroscientific study... - Neural mechanisms of imitationMarco Iacoboni
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, 660 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 15:632-7. 2005..By contrast, imitation as a form of social mirroring is supported by interaction of the core circuitry of imitation with the limbic system... - Culture in the mind's mirror: how anthropology and neuroscience can inform a model of the neural substrate for cultural imitative learningElizabeth A Reynolds Losin
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Prog Brain Res 178:175-90. 2009..Finally, we discuss future studies needed to test this model and fully explore and explain the neural underpinnings of cultural imitative learning... - Interhemispheric visuo-motor integration in humans: the effect of redundant targetsMarco Iacoboni
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7085, USA
Eur J Neurosci 17:1981-6. 2003..These results support the hypothesis that the functional locus of response facilitation during parallel visuo-motor processing is premotor... - The effects of bilateral presentations on lateralized lexical decisionLeonardo Fernandino
Department of Psychology, A407 Franz Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Brain Cogn 64:60-7. 2007..Finally, a comparison between performance patterns on the trials containing perceptual and lexical distractors indicated that the lexical redundancy effect is mainly due to inhibition of word processing by pseudoword distractors... - Fast visuomotor processing of redundant targets: the role of the right temporo-parietal junctionEric Mooshagian
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2348. 2008..These results suggest the neural coactivation observed in visuomotor integration occurs at a cognitive rather than sensory or motor stage of processing... - Deconstructing apraxia: understanding disorders of intentional movement after strokeLisa Koski
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90095 7085, USA
Curr Opin Neurol 15:71-7. 2002..Moreover, a coherent interpretation of the results of apraxia studies remains hampered by the lack of a standard testing instrument to assess the nature and severity of apraxic impairments in the groups tested... - Modulation of motor and premotor activity during imitation of target-directed actionsLisa Koski
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, 660 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Cereb Cortex 12:847-55. 2002.... - A preliminary study of fMRI-guided rTMS in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorderAlexander Bystritsky
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6968, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 69:1092-8. 2008..The goal of this pilot study was to evaluate whether functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-guided rTMS is effective in reducing symptoms of GAD... - The myth of the normal, average human brain--the ICBM experience: (1) subject screening and eligibilityJohn C Mazziotta
Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Neuroimage 44:914-22. 2009..Recommendations are made with regard to the inclusion of subjects in brain imaging studies and the criteria used to select them... - Watching social interactions produces dorsomedial prefrontal and medial parietal BOLD fMRI signal increases compared to a resting baselineMarco Iacoboni
UCLA Brain Mapping Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Neuroimage 21:1167-73. 2004.... - The role of premotor cortex in speech perception: evidence from fMRI and rTMSMarco Iacoboni
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Physiol Paris 102:31-4. 2008..It is proposed that the perception of speech is enabled--at least in part--by a process that simulates speech production... - Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech productionStephen M Wilson
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center and Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Nat Neurosci 7:701-2. 2004..Our findings support the view that the motor system is recruited in mapping acoustic inputs to a phonetic code... - No language-specific activation during linguistic processing of observed actionsIngo G Meister
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e891. 2007..If this is true, the hypothesis that language evolved from fronto-parietal systems matching action execution and action observation would be strongly reinforced... - Optimized neural coding? Control mechanisms in large cortical networks implemented by connectivity changesKaty A Cross
Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 34:213-25. 2013..This supports models of brain organization that emphasize efficient coding through changing patterns of integration between regions of specialized function... - Lateralization in motor facilitation during action observation: a TMS studyLisa Aziz-Zadeh
Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, UCLA School of Medicine, 600 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90005-7085, USA
Exp Brain Res 144:127-31. 2002..The pattern of this effect is congruent with the pattern of motor representation in each hemisphere... - Cortical alpha rhythms are correlated with body sway during quiet open-eyes standing in athletes: a high-resolution EEG studyClaudio Del Percio
Istituto di Medicina e Scienza dello Sport, CONI Servizi, Via dei Campi Sportivi, 46 00197, Roma, Italy
Neuroimage 36:822-9. 2007..These results suggest that parasylvian alpha ERD of the right hemisphere may reflect the cortical information processing for the balance in elite athletes subjected to a long training for equilibrium control... - Acute stroke effects on emotions: an interpretation through the mirror systemBenedetta Bodini
Department of Neurological Sciences, 1st University of Roma 'La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Curr Opin Neurol 17:55-60. 2004..The model of analysis-by-synthesis is here discussed, together with neurological presentations resulting from stroke induced impairments of the mirror system. Speculations for further researches are also proposed... - Neural correlates of the processing of co-speech gesturesHenning Holle
Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr 1a, Leipzig, Germany
Neuroimage 39:2010-24. 2008..The activations in inferior frontal and inferior parietal regions may reflect a mechanism of determining the goal of co-speech hand movements through an observation-execution matching process... - Congruent embodied representations for visually presented actions and linguistic phrases describing actionsLisa Aziz-Zadeh
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Universita di Parma, Via Volturno, 39 E, I 43100 Parma, Italy
Curr Biol 16:1818-23. 2006..These results suggest a key role of mirror neuron areas in the re-enactment of sensory-motor representations during conceptual processing of actions invoked by linguistic stimuli... - Golf putt outcomes are predicted by sensorimotor cerebral EEG rhythmsClaudio Babiloni
Dipartmento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Piazzale A Moro 5, Rome, Italy
J Physiol 586:131-9. 2008..e. distance from the hole). These results indicate that high-frequency alpha rhythms over associative, premotor and non-dominant primary sensorimotor areas subserve motor control and are predictive of the golfer's performance...