Action Observation and Synchronization

Respiratory synchrony and individual differences causally influence dyadic interpersonal coordination

In musical dyads, perturbing breathing disrupts both respiratory and auditory-motor synchronization whereas perturbing tapping disrupts only behavior, demonstrating a unidirectional causal influence from respiration to behavioral coordination.

Neural Correlates of Motor Imagery, Action Observation, and Movement Execution: A Comparison Across Quantitative Meta-Analyses

Coordinate-based meta-analyses reveal a premotor, rostral parietal, and somatosensory core shared by motor imagery, action observation, and execution; only imagery and execution share putamen and cerebellum.