The Representation of Observed Actions at the Subordinate, Basic, and Superordinate Level

T Zhuang, Z Kabulska, A Lingnau - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Actions can be planned and recognized at different hierarchical levels, ranging from very
specific (eg, to swim backstroke) to very broad (eg, locomotion). Understanding the …

Action categories in lateral occipitotemporal cortex are organized along sociality and transitivity

MF Wurm, A Caramazza, A Lingnau - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
How neural specificity for distinct conceptual knowledge categories arises is central for
understanding the organization of semantic memory in the human brain. Although there is a …

The representational space of observed actions

R Tucciarelli, M Wurm, E Baccolo, A Lingnau - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Categorizing and understanding other people's actions is a key human capability. Whereas
there exists a growing literature regarding the organization of objects, the representational …

Decoding actions at different levels of abstraction

MF Wurm, A Lingnau - Journal of Neuroscience, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Brain regions that mediate action understanding must contain representations that are
action specific and at the same time tolerate a wide range of perceptual variance. Whereas …

Observed, executed, and imagined action representations can be decoded from ventral and dorsal areas

F Filimon, CA Rieth, MI Sereno, GW Cottrell - Cerebral Cortex, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research on action observation has
emphasized the role of putative mirror neuron areas such as Broca's area, ventral premotor …

Neural representations of observed actions generalize across static and dynamic visual input

A Hafri, JC Trueswell, RA Epstein - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
People interact with entities in the environment in distinct and categorizable ways (eg,
kicking is making contact with foot). We can recognize these action categories across …

MEG multivariate analysis reveals early abstract action representations in the lateral occipitotemporal cortex

R Tucciarelli, L Turella, NN Oosterhof… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Understanding other people's actions is a fundamental prerequisite for social interactions.
Whether action understanding relies on simulating the actions of others in the observers' …

Objects tell us what action we can expect: dissociating brain areas for retrieval and exploitation of action knowledge during action observation in fMRI

RI Schubotz, MF Wurm, MK Wittmann… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Objects are reminiscent of actions often performed with them: knife and apple remind us on
peeling the apple or cutting it. Mnemonic representations of object-related actions (action …

Distinct roles of temporal and frontoparietal cortex in representing actions across vision and language

MF Wurm, A Caramazza - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Both temporal and frontoparietal brain areas are associated with the representation of
knowledge about the world, in particular about actions. However, what these brain regions …

Understanding the goals of everyday instrumental actions is primarily linked to object, not motor-kinematic, information: Evidence from fMRI

T Nicholson, M Roser, P Bach - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Prior research conceptualised action understanding primarily as a kinematic matching of
observed actions to own motor representations but has ignored the role of object …