Action Observation and Synchronization

Lift observation conveys object weight distribution but partly enhances predictive lift planning

The paper shows that observing lifts of objects conveys weight distribution information, improving digit positioning strategies, but only error observations enhance predictive motor control for unexpected weight distributions.

Neuropsychological assessment and virtual reality training of social prediction in patients with cerebellar malformation

This study investigates cerebellar impairments in social prediction using virtual reality training and finds improved social cognition through context-based prediction training.

Frontoparietal, cerebellum network codes for accurate intention prediction in altered perceptual conditions

The paper shows that frontoparietal and cerebellar networks are crucial for predicting intentions in altered perceptual conditions, especially when visual representations are spatially and temporally modified.

Placebo analgesia does not reduce empathy for naturalistic depictions of others' pain in a somatosensory specific way

This study investigates whether placebo analgesia affects empathy for pain by examining neural responses to naturalistic depictions of others' pain in a somatotopically matched manner.

Moving toward versus away from another: how body motion direction changes the representation of bodies and actions in the visual cortex.

The paper shows that facing-body stimuli enhance neural activity in visual areas processing body motion and spatial relations, improving perceptual accuracy and functional integration.

Enhanced mirroring upon mutual gaze: Multimodal evidence from TMS-assessed corticospinal excitability and the EEG mu rhythm

The paper investigates how direct versus averted eye gaze affects motor evoked potentials and mu rhythm suppression during action observation, finding both are modulated by gaze direction.

EEG frequency tagging reveals neural entrainment to people moving in synchrony

The paper uses EEG frequency tagging to show that the brain preferentially entrains to collective movement of human agents, enhancing responses to synchronous motion over individual or image-based motion.

A shared neural substrate for action verbs and observed actions in human posterior parietal cortex.

The paper shows that action verbs and observed actions share a neural substrate in human posterior parietal cortex, with invariant and idiosyncratic responses across views.

Dynamic brain-to-brain concordance and behavioral mirroring as a mechanism of the patient-clinician interaction

This study investigates patient-clinician interactions using hyperscanning fMRI, finding that analgesia is mediated by behavioral mirroring and brain-to-brain concordance in social circuits, particularly in dyads with prior clinical rapport.

Crowdsourcing neuroscience: inter-brain coupling during face-to-face interactions outside the laboratory

This paper uses crowdsourced EEG data from face-to-face interactions to show that brain synchrony correlates with empathy, social closeness, and engagement during naturalistic social behavior.

Transient disruption of the inferior parietal lobule impairs the ability to attribute intention to action

This study shows that disrupting the left inferior parietal lobule impairs the ability to infer intentions from movement kinematics, while leaving kinematic discrimination unaffected.

Finding the neural correlates of collaboration using a three-person fMRI hyperscanning paradigm

This study uses a 3-person fMRI hyperscanning paradigm to identify neural correlates of collaboration, finding increased activation and synchrony in theory of mind-related brain regions during a triadic task.

Movement initiation and grasp representation in premotor and primary motor cortex mirror neurons

The paper investigates how movement initiation and grasp representation are encoded in premotor and primary motor cortex neurons during execution, observation, and withholding of reach-to-grasp actions in macaques.

Top-down contextual requirement to suppress self-movement influences grasp-specific modulation of corticospinal excitability during action observation

The paper investigates how task context affects corticospinal excitability during action observation, finding that a Go-NoGo paradigm reduces grasp-specific modulation of motor evoked potentials.

Sociality and Interaction Envelope Organize Visual Action Representations

The paper investigates how the visual cortex organizes representations of human actions by identifying five networks related to social aspects and interaction envelope scale.

Typical lipreading and audiovisual speech perception without motor simulation

The paper shows that individuals with lip paralysis can have typical lipreading and audiovisual speech perception without covert motor simulation.

The speed of human social interaction perception

This study investigates whether detecting social interactions is a rapid perceptual process or a slower post-perceptual inference using MEG decoding and computational modeling.

Sensorimotor expectations bias motor resonance during observation of object lifting: The causal role of pSTS

This paper investigates how weight expectations during object lifting observation modulate motor resonance, showing that pSTS suppression of motor resonance is critical for weight-based corticospinal excitability.

Action representation in the mouse parieto-frontal network

This study investigates whether mirror neuron-like activity exists in the mouse parieto-frontal network during action performance and observation, finding no overlap in neural responses.

Neuro-computational account of arbitration between imitation and emulation during human observational learning

This paper develops a computational model to explain how the brain arbitrates between imitation and emulation strategies in observational learning, supported by fMRI data showing specific brain regions involved in this process.

Social Perception and Interaction Database - a novel tool to study social cognitive processes with point-light displays.

The paper introduces a novel point-light display dataset (SoPID) for studying social cognitive processes, showing high recognizability of communicative interactions.

Gesture's body orientation modulates the N400 during semantic integration of gesture and visual sentence

The paper investigates how body orientation of gestures affects semantic integration with visual sentences, finding that lateral gestures reduce N400 effects during incongruency.

The right temporoparietal junction is causally associated with embodied perspective taking

This study uses HD-tDCS to show that the rTPJ causally influences embodied perspective taking, but not perspective tracking, by modulating the effect of body posture.

Developmental Changes in Visual Responses to Social Interactions

This paper investigates developmental changes in neural responses to social interactions in the pSTS and adjacent regions, finding increased selectivity and bilateral activation in adults compared to children.

Pattern similarity and connectivity of hippocampal-neocortical regions support empathy for pain

The paper investigates how hippocampal-neocortical pattern similarity and connectivity contribute to pain empathy using fMRI data from human participants.

Reward modulates behaviour and neural responses in motor cortex during action observation

The paper shows that observing highly-valued actions reduces response time variability and strengthens motor cortex neural representations, independent of attentional engagement.

Emotional contagion of pain across different social cues shares common and process-specific neural representations

The paper identifies shared and process-specific neural representations of vicarious pain using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis.

Neural responses in the pain matrix when observing pain of others are unaffected by testosterone administration

The paper investigates whether testosterone affects neural responses to observing others in pain and finds no effect on the pain matrix activation patterns.

Inter-subject phase synchronization differentiates neural networks underlying physical pain empathy

The paper uses inter-subject phase synchronization to analyze fMRI data and identifies distinct neural networks associated with physical pain empathy, but not affective pain.

Stereo-EEG reveals rich cortical dynamics in humans coping with difficult action discrimination.

This paper uses stereo-EEG to study cortical dynamics during action discrimination tasks, finding that the MD system is involved in both control and evaluation processes.