Artur Pilacinski

Pupillary oscillations accompany hand movement planning in naturalistic scenes

The paper shows pupillary oscillations increase during hand movement planning in naturalistic virtual reality scenes, indicating a new method for studying motion planning noninvasively.

Network dynamics for sensory prioritization: Functional connectivity related to individual sensory weighting of vision versus proprioception during upper limb control

The paper investigates how individual sensory biases during upper limb control relate to whole-brain network dynamics using rsfMRI and finds specific neural patterns associated with visual versus proprioceptive weighting.

Spontaneous eye movements reveal that human premotor cortex is involved in conceptual processing

This study shows that spontaneous eye movements during abstract thinking are linked to premotor cortex activity, suggesting conceptual processing involves similar neural mechanisms as motor actions.

Phantom touch illusion, an unexpected phenomenological effect of tactile gating in the absence of tactile stimulation

The paper reports a phantom touch illusion during self-touch in virtual reality, suggesting tactile gating involves multi-sensory top-down processing rather than vision alone.

Neural representations of economic decision variables in human posterior parietal cortex

This study investigates how single neurons in the human posterior parietal cortex represent numeric values and decision variables during a complex economic game.

Effector-dependent modulation of working memory maintenance in posterior parietal cortex

This study uses fMRI to show that posterior parietal cortex activity during working memory maintenance varies based on the effector used for the response, indicating motor context optimization.

Distinct representations of planned reach trajectories in human premotor and posterior parietal cortex

This study shows that human premotor cortex represents both straight and complex hand trajectories, while posterior parietal cortex only represents straight trajectories during movement planning.

How will it look like? Human posterior parietal and dorsal premotor cortex encode the visual properties of an upcoming action

The paper investigates how human posterior parietal and dorsal premotor cortex encode visual properties of upcoming actions during planning, finding that early stages represent desired sensory outcomes while later stages shift to motor programs.