2012
Eur J Neurosci. 2012 May;35(10):1646-54. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08104.x. Epub 2012 Apr 29
Action anticipation beyond the action observation network: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in expert basketball players
The ability to predict the actions of others is quintessential for effective social interactions, particularly in competitive contexts (e.g. in sport) when knowledge about upcoming movements allows anticipating rather than…
PLoS One. 2012;7(11):e50223. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050223. Epub 2012 Nov 28
And yet they act together: interpersonal perception modulates visuo-motor interference and mutual adjustments during a joint-grasping task
Prediction of "when" a partner will act and "what" he is going to do is crucial in joint-action contexts. However, studies on face-to-face interactions in which two people have to…
Cereb Cortex. 2013 Mar;23(3):570-80. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhs040. Epub 2012 Mar 16
Compensatory plasticity in the action observation network: virtual lesions of STS enhance anticipatory simulation of seen actions
Observation of snapshots depicting ongoing motor acts increases corticospinal motor excitability. Such motor facilitation indexes the anticipatory simulation of observed (implied) actions and likely reflects computations occurring in the parietofrontal…
Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 3(1), 109-123. 15 p. March 2012. doi: 10.1007/s13164-012-0091-6
Embodying Bodies and Worlds
Sensorimotor representations are essential for building up and maintaining corporeal awareness, i.e., the ability to perceive, know and evaluate one's own body as well as the bodies of others. The…
Exp Brain Res. 2013 Mar;225(2):237-45. doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3365-4. Epub 2012 Dec 16
Emotional conflict in a model modulates nociceptive processing in an onlooker: a laser-evoked potentials study
Observing models displaying facial expressions of pain elicits neural activity in onlookers' neural structures involved in first-hand experience of pain and in monitoring conflicting information. We investigated whether the purported…
Cereb Cortex. 2013 Nov;23(11):2765-78. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhs279. Epub 2012 Aug 31
Fooling the kickers but not the goalkeepers: behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of fake action detection in soccer
Studies demonstrate that elite athletes are able to extract kinematic information of observed domain-specific actions to predict their future course. Little is known, however, on the perceptuo-motor processes and neural…
Hum Brain Mapp. 2012 Dec;33(12):2873-84. doi: 10.1002/hbm.21408. Epub 2012 Jan 10
Seeing touch and pain in a stranger modulates the cortical responses elicited by somatosensory but not auditory stimulation
Viewing other's pain inhibits the excitability of the motor cortex and also modulates the neural activity elicited by a concomitantly delivered nociceptive somatosensory stimulus. As the neural activity elicited by…
Rend Fis Acc Lincei. (2012) 23:281-288: doi: 10.1007/s12210-012-0169-1
The beauty of the body
Aesthetics can be defined as our ability to perceive, feel and sense objects in the world and assign them positive or negative values along a continuum between beauty and ugliness.…
Neuroimage. 2012 Jan 16;59(2):1571-81. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.069. Epub 2011 Aug 28
The primary somatosensory cortex largely contributes to the early part of the cortical response elicited by nociceptive stimuli
Research on the cortical sources of nociceptive laser-evoked brain potentials (LEPs) began almost two decades ago (Tarkka and Treede, 1993). Whereas there is a large consensus on the sources of…
Hum Brain Mapp. 2013 Dec;34(12):3168-81. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22133. Epub 2012 Jul 17
Their pain is not our pain: brain and autonomic correlates of empathic resonance with the pain of same and different race individuals
Recent advances in social neuroscience research have unveiled the neurophysiological correlates of race and intergroup processing. However, little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying intergroup empathy. Combining event-related fMRI…
Int J Eat Disord. 2012 May;45(4):501-11. doi: 10.1002/eat.20982. Epub 2012 Jan 24
Visual body perception in anorexia nervosa
OBJECTIVE: Disturbance of body perception is a central aspect of anorexia nervosa (AN) and several neuroimaging studies have documented structural and functional alterations of occipito-temporal cortices involved in visual body…
