The fronto-parietal network has been implicated in the processing of multisensory
information for motor control. Recent methodological advances with both fMRI and TMS …

Research studies in psychology typically use two-dimensional (2D) images of objects as
proxies for real-world three-dimensional (3D) stimuli. There are, however, a number of …

Given that studying neural bases of actions is very challenging with fMRI, numerous
experiments have used pantomimed actions as a proxy to studying neural circuits of real …

The observation of tools is known to elicit a distributed cortical network that reflects close-knit
relations of semantic, action-related, and perceptual knowledge. The neural correlates …

A controversial question in cognitive neuroscience is whether comprehension of words and
sentences engages brain mechanisms specific for decoding linguistic meaning or whether …

OBJECTIVE: Recent brain imaging studies have demonstrated that the human mirror
system, in addition to becoming active while viewing the actions of others, also responds to …

Some objects in our environment are strongly tied to motor actions, a phenomenon called
object affordance. A cup, for example, affords us to reach out to it and grasp it by its handle …

Motor actions associated with grasping or using objects are part of object knowledge and
may be automatically activated during object perception. Such findings suggest that the …

Seeing pictures of objects activates the motor cortex and can have an influence on
subsequent grasping actions. However, the exact nature of the motor representations …

This fMRI study investigates the neural mechanisms supporting the retrieval of action
semantics. A novel motor imagery task was used in which participants were required to …