The purpose of the current article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the literature
offering a better understanding of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) correlates in motor …

At first glance, there is no clear relationship between the mental activity of representing an
action and the functioning of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The process of …

Background The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is activated in parallel with the motor
system during cyclical and effortful imagined actions. However, it is not clear whether the …

New findings related to autonomic nervous system (ANS) functions may reveal some brain
functions, since they can be observed by real time analysis. ANS parameters (skin potential …

Brains are restless. We have long known of the existence of a great deal of uninterrupted
brain activity that maintains the body in a stable state—from an evolutionary standpoint one …

Over the last 20 years, the topics of action observation (AO) and motor imagery (MI) have
been largely studied in isolation from each other, despite the early integrative account by …

Both motor imagery (MI) and action observation (AO) trigger the activation of the
neurocognitive mechanisms that underlie the planning and execution of voluntary …

The understanding of neurophysiological mechanisms responsible for motor imagery (MI) is
essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and bioprosthetics. Our …

The brain exhibits a complex temporal structure which translates into a hierarchy of distinct
neural timescales. An open question is how these intrinsic timescales are related to sensory …

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging of healthy subjects to investigate the
neural basis for spontaneous “willed” action. We hypothesised that such action involves …