More time for science: Using Testable to create and share behavioral experiments faster, recruit better participants, and engage students in hands-on research

C Rezlescu, I Danaila, A Miron, C Amariei - Progress in brain research, 2020 - Elsevier
A major pain for researchers in all fields is that they have less and less time for actual
science activities: reading, thinking, coming up with new theories and hypotheses, testing …

Efficient recognition of facial expressions does not require motor simulation

G Vannuscorps, M Andres, A Caramazza - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
What mechanisms underlie facial expression recognition? A popular hypothesis holds that
efficient facial expression recognition cannot be achieved by visual analysis alone but …

Large-scale organization of the hand action observation network in individuals born without hands

G Vannuscorps, MF Wurm, E Striem-Amit… - Cerebral …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The human high-level visual cortex comprises regions specialized for the processing of
distinct types of stimuli, such as objects, animals, and human actions. How does this …

Predictive extrapolation of observed body movements is tuned by knowledge of the body biomechanics.

A Vandenberghe, G Vannuscorps - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
After a moving object has disappeared, observers typically mislocate its final position to
where that object would have been if it had briefly continued to move. Previous studies have …

Predicting and coding sound into action translation in spinal cord injured people

L Grisoni, G Piperno, Q Moreau… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Motor activation in response to perception of action‐related stimuli may depend on a
resonance mechanism subserving action understanding. The extent to which this …

Atypical influence of biomechanical knowledge in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome-towards a different perspective on body representation

L Filbrich, C Verfaille, G Vannuscorps, A Berquin… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Part of the multifaceted pathophysiology of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is
ascribed to lateralized maladaptive neuroplasticity in sensorimotor cortices, corroborated by …

[HTML][HTML] Altered sensorimotor representations after recovery from peripheral nerve damage in neuralgic amyotrophy

R Lustenhouwer, IGM Cameron, N van Alfen… - cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Neuralgic amyotrophy is a common peripheral nerve disorder caused by acute autoimmune
inflammation of the brachial plexus. Subsequent weakness of the stabilizing shoulder …

Imagination as predictive perception: mental imagery predictively biases perceptual judgments of observed action kinematics

E Parrotta, KL McDonough, P Bach - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Recent approaches conceptualize mental imagery as a simulatory mode of perceptual
experience, which relies on the voluntary engagement of the same top-down prediction …

Typically efficient lipreading without motor simulation

G Vannuscorps, M Andres, SP Carneiro… - Journal of cognitive …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
All it takes is a face-to-face conversation in a noisy environment to realize that viewing a
speaker's lip movements contributes to speech comprehension. What are the processes …

[PDF][PDF] Impaired short-term memory for hand postures in individuals born without hands

G Vannuscorps, A Caramazza - Cortex, 2016 - academia.edu
The psychological and neurobiological processes underlying short-term memory for words
and objects have been the focus of very numerous studies and of detailed hypotheses …