[HTML][HTML] An active inference model of hierarchical action understanding, learning and imitation

R Proietti, G Pezzulo, A Tessari - Physics of Life Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
We advance a novel active inference model of the cognitive processing that underlies the
acquisition of a hierarchical action repertoire and its use for observation, understanding and …

Pantomime of tool use: looking beyond apraxia

F Osiurak, E Reynaud, J Baumard… - Brain …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Pantomime has a long tradition in clinical neuropsychology of apraxia. It has been much
more used by researchers and clinicians to assess tool-use disorders than real tool use …

Syndromes of limb apraxia: Developmental and acquired disorders of skilled movements.

J Randerath - 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The term" apraxia" has been used to describe many different problems related to
impairments of skilled movements. The apraxias present themselves as a conglomerate of …

Effectiveness of a Virtual Reality rehabilitation in stroke patients with sensory-motor and proprioception upper limb deficit: A study protocol

S Ventura, A Tessari, S Castaldini, E Magni, A Turolla… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Stroke is the second leading cause of death in Europe. In the case of stroke
survival (almost 70%), only 25% of patients recover completely, while the remaining 75 …

Fluency test generation and errors in focal frontal and posterior lesions

GA Robinson, P Tjokrowijoto, A Ceslis, V Biggs… - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
The number produced on fluency tasks is widely used to measure voluntary response
generation. To further evaluate the relationship between generation, errors, and the area of …

Distinct cognitive components and their neural substrates underlying praxis and language deficits following left hemisphere stroke

CC Schmidt, EIS Achilles, GR Fink, PH Weiss - Cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
Apraxia is characterised by multiple deficits of higher motor functions, primarily caused by
left hemisphere (LH) lesions to parietal-frontal praxis networks. While previous …

[HTML][HTML] The Neural correlates of limb apraxia: An anatomical likelihood estimation meta-analysis of lesion-symptom mapping studies in brain-damaged patients

M Metaireau, F Osiurak, A Seye, M Lesourd - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Limb apraxia is a motor disorder frequently observed following a stroke. Apraxic deficits are
classically assessed with four tasks: tool use, pantomime of tool use, imitation, and gesture …

[HTML][HTML] 100 years after Liepmann–Lesion correlates of diminished selection and application of familiar versus novel tools

SEM Stoll, L Finkel, I Buchmann, T Hassa, S Spiteri… - cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract 100 years ago, Liepmann highlighted the role of left ventro-dorsal lesions for
impairments in conceptual (rather ventral) and motor (more dorsal) related aspects of …

The impact of upper limb apraxia on general and domain-specific self-efficacy in post-stroke patients

L Sánchez-Bermejo, PJ Milla-Ortega, JM Pérez-Mármol - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Upper limb apraxia (ULA) is a neurological syndrome characterized by the
inability to perform purposeful movements. ULA could impact individuals' perceptions …

Single-case disconnectome lesion-symptom mapping: Identifying two subtypes of limb apraxia

R Metzgar, H Stoll, ST Grafton, LJ Buxbaum… - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
Influential theories of skilled action posit that distinct cognitive mechanisms and
neuroanatomic substrates support meaningless gesture imitation and tool use pantomiming …