Florent Lebon

This study investigates whether action language modulates spinal motor pathways, finding no effect on high-threshold motoneurons during action reading, unlike motor imagery.

This study examines brain activity during motor imagery and low-frequency sound listening, finding variability in alpha and beta power responses but no additional modulation from combining the two tasks.

The paper investigates motor simulation deficits in aphantasia by comparing MEP responses during motor imagery and action observation between phantasics and aphantasics.

The paper investigates motor simulation during action reading in individuals with and without aphantasia, finding reduced corticospinal excitability and comprehension in aphantasics.

This study investigates the effects of moderate-intensity exercise before and after mental practice on motor acquisition and consolidation, finding that exercise after mental practice enhances consolidation.

This study shows that motor imagery training improves motor memory in very old adults, maintaining performance in manual dexterity and enhancing sequential stepping tasks compared to a control group.

The paper investigates whether action language and motor imagery share motor representations through behavioral and neurophysiological experiments.

The paper investigates how sentence context affects corticospinal excitability during action verb processing, finding that rich context sharpens motor representations.

The paper investigates motor cortex activation during reading of affirmative and negative action sentences, finding similar corticospinal excitability for both but increased inhibition at later latencies, supporting a two-step model of negation.

This study uses directional TMS to show that motor imagery increases corticospinal excitability more with posterior-anterior than anterior-posterior current flow in primary motor cortex.

This study shows that mental practice improves motor skill accuracy and speed and alters functional connectivity between the cerebellum and primary motor cortex.

This study investigates how time-of-day affects motor skill acquisition and consolidation after physical and mental practice, finding better consolidation in the afternoon for both types of practice.

The paper compares movement smoothness between physical and motor imagery practice, finding that physical practice leads to smoother movements as indicated by fewer velocity peaks.

This paper uses dual-site TMS to examine the causal influence of SMA and mOFC on M1 activity, finding SMA stimulation facilitates M1 activity related to SMA volume, while mOFC stimulation suppresses M1 activity regardless of mOFC volume.

This study investigates how short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) changes during motor imagery using an adaptive threshold-hunting paradigm and finds that SICI modulation depends on conditioning stimulus intensity.

An acute session of motor imagery training induces use-dependent plasticity, as evidenced by changes in corticospinal excitability and movement direction.

The paper investigates how preparatory inhibition during movement preparation varies with anatomical distance between the target muscle and the movement effector.