Action Observation and Synchronization

Towards fNIRS Hyperfeedback: A Feasibility Study on Real-Time Interbrain Synchrony

This study assesses the feasibility of real-time interbrain synchrony measurement using fNIRS and wavelet transform coherence for neurofeedback applications.

The role of agentive and physical forces in the neural representation of motion events

This study investigates how the brain represents motion events based on agentive versus physical forces using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis, finding shared and distinct neural representations in different brain regions.

Mental simulations and action language are impaired in individuals with aphantasia

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

Dissociating Goal from Outcome During Action Observation

The paper identifies brain regions that represent action goals independently of outcomes using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis.

Rapid processing of observed touch through social perceptual brain regions: an EEG-fMRI fusion study

This study uses EEG-fMRI fusion to show that social touch is processed rapidly through a social perceptual pathway before involving somatosensory cortex.

Visual selectivity and motor role of action observation/execution neurons in macaque ventral premotor cortex

This study investigates the visual selectivity and motor role of AOENs in macaque ventral premotor cortex, finding they respond to abstract shapes and influence motor behavior.

Architectural experience influences the processing of others' body expressions

The study shows that architectural space influences social cognition by modulating neural responses to others' body expressions through motor system engagement.

Uncovering the links between physical activity and prosocial behaviour: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning study on brain connectivity and synchrony

Poor matching of action codes challenges 'mirroring' in macaque F5 mirror neurons

The paper shows that F5 mirror neurons in macaques poorly match action codes during observation and execution, challenging the motor representation hypothesis of action understanding.

TMS-induced inhibition of the left premotor cortex modulates illusory social perception

The paper shows that real TMS over the left premotor cortex increases false alarms in illusory social perception tasks compared to sham TMS.

Vicarious touch: overlapping neural patterns between seeing and feeling touch

The paper tests if seeing touch activates similar neural representations as feeling touch, finding overlap only in individuals who experience vicarious touch.

Imagination as predictive perception: mental imagery predictively biases perceptual judgments of observed action kinematics.

The paper shows that mental imagery induces perceptual biases similar to predictive perception of observed actions, distorting judgments toward imagined action goals.

Evaluation of abstract rule-based associations in the human premotor cortex during passive observation

The paper investigates premotor cortex activity during passive observation of rule-based stimuli, finding activation related to abstract rule evaluation even without motor actions.

Early categorization of social affordances during the visual encoding of bodily stimuli

The paper investigates neural correlates of social affordance processing during visual encoding of hand postures using EEG, finding early differential processing in occipito-temporal regions.

Auditory dyadic interactions through the 'eye' of the social brain: How visual is the posterior STS interaction region?

The paper investigates how the posterior superior temporal sulcus (SI-pSTS) responds to auditory social interactions, finding it preferentially processes visual over auditory stimuli, while anterior STS shows the opposite preference.

Your turn, my turn. Neural synchrony in mother-infant proto-conversation.

The paper examines neural synchrony in mother-infant interactions during proto-conversations and finds it relates to turn-taking frequency and infant brain maturity and vocabulary development.

Gaze onsets during naturalistic infant-caregiver interaction associate with 'sender' but not 'receiver' neural responses, and do not lead to changes in inter-brain synchrony.

The paper examines how mutual gaze onsets during infant-caregiver interactions affect neural responses and inter-brain synchrony, finding sender-specific effects without increased synchrony.

Evidence for a sensorimotor prediction process in action observation

This study investigates whether sensorimotor predictions underlie action observation by comparing timing processes in locomotion inference and mental locomotion tasks using sensory illusions.

Imagining and reading actions: towards similar motor representations

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

Revealing the Neurobiology Underlying Interpersonal Neural Synchronization with Multimodal Data Fusion

This study identifies brain regions and molecular mechanisms associated with interpersonal neural synchronization using multimodal data fusion and meta-analysis.

The Role of Objecthood and Animacy in Apparent Movement Processing

This study investigates how objecthood and animacy affect movement and posture processing using EEG frequency tagging, finding that movement processing depends on objecthood but not animacy, while posture processing depends on both.

Interpersonal brain synchronization during face-to-face economic exchange between acquainted dyads

This study examines brain synchronization during economic exchanges between acquainted pairs, finding no increase in IBS compared to strangers but identifying pair-specific synchronization in specific brain regions during the task.

Neural, physiological and behavioral correlates of empathy for pain in Tourette syndrome

This study investigates empathy for pain in Tourette syndrome by comparing neural responses and behavioral measures between patients and controls.

Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Oscillatory Brain Activity during the Observation of Actions and Interactions between Point-light Agents

The paper investigates the neural correlates of cognitive processes during social interactions using EEG, revealing dynamic patterns in brain activity related to action observation and predictive coding.

The value of corticospinal excitability and intracortical inhibition in predicting motor skill improvement driven by action observation

This study shows that corticospinal excitability and intracortical inhibition during action observation predict motor skill improvement in action observation training.

Predictive coding during action observation revealed by human electrocorticographic activity

The paper uses ECoG to study how the action observation network integrates information during action observation, finding top-down beta and bottom-up gamma oscillations in predictable and unpredictable actions respectively.

Does the motor cortex want the full story? The influence of sentence context on corticospinal excitability in action language processing

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

A shared neural code for the physics of actions and object events

This study identifies a shared neural code across brain regions for both action and object events, showing that these regions encode event structure and physics regardless of animacy.

Action Observation Network activity related to object-directed and socially directed actions in Adolescents

This study investigates how the Action Observation Network (AON) processes socially directed versus object-directed actions in adolescents and adults using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis.

The effects of combined action observation and motor imagery on corticospinal excitability and movement outcomes: Two meta-analyses

This paper conducts two meta-analyses comparing the effects of combined action observation and motor imagery (AOMI) to AO, MI, and control conditions on corticospinal excitability and movement outcomes.