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Contextualizing action observation in the predictive brain: Causal contributions of prefrontal and middle temporal areas
(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 ...
Low or High-Level Motor Coding? The Role of Stimulus Complexity
(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 ...
Contextual priors do not modulate action prediction in children with autism
(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 ...
Spatial frequency tuning of motor responses reveals differential contribution of dorsal and ventral systems to action comprehension
(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 ...
Contextual Priors Guide Perception and Motor Responses to Observed Actions
(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 ...
“Left and right prefrontal routes to action comprehension”
(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 ...