Fraser W. Smith

This study investigates whether viewing tool pictures activates neural representations of tool-use actions in brain regions associated with hand-selective processing, finding that action-related information is present but not shared across perception and action tasks.

The paper uses multivariate pattern analysis to show that the mu rhythm encodes information about familiar graspable objects but not unfamiliar ones, suggesting sensorimotor activation during visual perception.

The paper shows that primary somatosensory cortex (SI) can decode sounds of hand-object interactions better than other sound categories, without tactile input.

This paper decodes grasp typicality from hand-selective brain regions during real tool grasping, showing these regions encode how to grasp 3D tools even without tool use or object knowledge.

This study uses EEG decoding to show that face processing neural profiles emerge early in childhood and refine with age, supporting early functional maturation and ongoing specialization.

This study uses EEG decoding to compare how facial expression and identity are processed under explicit and implicit task contexts, finding differences in decoding patterns and task effects.