Browsing by Author "Finisguerra, Alessandra"
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Contextual priors do not modulate action prediction in children with autism
Amoruso, Lucia; Narzisi, Antonio; Pinzino, Martina; Finisguerra, Alessandra; Billeci, Lucia; Calderoni, Sara; Fabbro, Franco; Muratori, Filippo; Volzone, Anna; Urgesi, Cosimo (Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019)Bayesian accounts of autism suggest that this disorder may be rooted in an impaired ability to estimate the probability of future events, possibly owing to reduced priors. Here, we tested this hypothesis within the action ... -
Contextual Priors Guide Perception and Motor Responses to Observed Actions
Betti, Sonia; Finisguerra, Alessandra; Amoruso, Lucia; Urgesi, Cosimo (OXFORD, 2022)In everyday-life scenarios, prior expectations provided by the context in which actions are embedded support action prediction. However, it is still unclear how newly learned action–context associations can drive our ... -
Contextualizing action observation in the predictive brain: Causal contributions of prefrontal and middle temporal areas
Amoruso, Lucia; Finisguerra, Alessandra; Urgesi, Cosimo (NeuroImage, 2018)Context facilitates the recognition of forthcoming actions by pointing to which intention is likely to drive them. This intention is thought to be estimated in a ventral pathway linking MTG with frontal regions and to ... -
“Left and right prefrontal routes to action comprehension”
Amoruso, Lucia; Finisguerra, Alessandra; Urgesi, Cosimo (Cortex, 2023)Successful action comprehension requires the integration of motor information and semantic cues about objects in context. Previous evidence suggests that while motor features are dorsally encoded in the fronto-parietal ... -
Low or High-Level Motor Coding? The Role of Stimulus Complexity
Amoruso, Lucia; Finisguerra, Alessandra (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019)Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have shown that observing an action induces activity in the onlooker's motor system. In light of the muscle specificity and time-locked mirroring nature of the effect, this ... -
Spatial frequency tuning of motor responses reveals differential contribution of dorsal and ventral systems to action comprehension
Amoruso, Lucia; Finisguerra, Alessandra; Urgesi, Cosimo (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020)Understanding object-directed actions performed by others is central to everyday life. This ability is thought to rely on the interaction between the dorsal action observation network (AON) and a ventral object recognition ...