Action recognition in the premotor cortex
We recorded electrical activity from 532 neurons in the rostral part of inferior area 6 (area F5) of two macaque monkeys. Previous data had shown that neurons of this area disch...
Publications
9 shownUnderstanding motor events: a neurophysiological study
Neurons of the rostral part of inferior premotor cortex of the monkey discharge during goal-directed hand movements such as grasping, holding, and tearing. We report here that m...
Motor facilitation during action observation: a magnetic stimulation study
1. We stimulated the motor cortex of normal subjects (transcranial magnetic stimulation) while they 1) observed an experimenter grasping 3D-objects, 2) looked at the same 3D-obj...
Action observation activates premotor and parietal areas in a somatotopic manner: an fMRI study
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to localize brain areas \nthat were active during the observation of actions made by another individual. \nObject- ...
Localization of grasp representations in humans by positron emission tomography
Positron emission tomography imaging of cerebral blood flow was used to localize brain areas involved in the representation of hand grasping movements. Seven normal subjects wer...
Speech listening specifically modulates the excitability of tongue muscles: a TMS study
Abstract The precise neural mechanisms underlying speech perception are still to a large extent unknown. The most accepted view is that speech perception depends on auditory‐cog...
Hand action preparation influences the responses to hand pictures
The relations between stimuli triggering a hand grasping movement and the subsequent action were studied in normal human participants. Participants were instructed to prepare to...
Modulation of spinal excitability during observation of hand actions in humans
Abstract There is growing evidence that observation of actions performed by other individuals activates observer's cortical motor areas. This matching of observed actions on the...
From mirror neurons to imitation: Facts and speculations
This chapter is composed of two parts. In the first we review the functional properties of an intriguing class of premotor neurons that we discovered in the monkey premotor cort...
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- Publications
- 9
- Citations
- 15,512
- Institution
- University of Parma
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- 0000-0001-5691-5080
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