The widely held belief in a central role of left parietal lesions for apraxia can be traced back
to Liepmann's model of a posterior to anterior stream converting mental images of intended …

Vittorio Gallese (VG). To answer this question, we should first clarify how motor acts and
actions are mapped within the cortical motor system and what the notion ofaction …

Mirror neurons, as originally described in the macaque, have two defining properties [1, 2]:
They respond specifically to a particular action (eg, bringing an object to the mouth), and …

The visual appearance of others' bodies is a powerful source of information about the
people around us. This information is implicit in the stimulus and must be extracted and …

The definition of apraxia specifies that the disturbance of performed skilled movements
cannot be explained by the more elemental motor disorders typical of patients with …

Imitation is an important constituent of the behavioral repertoire of human beings. We use
imitation for learning motor skills, for facilitating comprehension of other persons' actions and …

Everyday communication is accompanied by visual information from several sources,
including co‐speech gestures, which provide semantic information listeners use to help …

Several neurophysiologic and neuroimaging studies suggested that motor and perceptual
systems are tightly linked along a continuum rather than providing segregated mechanisms …

Apraxia is a cognitive disorder of skilled movements that characteristically affects the ability
to imitate meaningless gestures, or to pantomime the use of tools. Despite substantial …

Previous studies have suggested that imitators can reproduce known gestures shown by a
model using a semantic, indirect route, and novel gestures using a sublexical, direct route. In …