[HTML][HTML] Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain: What is stimulated?–A consensus and critical position paper

HR Siebner, K Funke, AS Aberra, A Antal… - Clinical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Transcranial (electro) magnetic stimulation (TMS) is currently the method of choice to non-
invasively induce neural activity in the human brain. A single transcranial stimulus induces a …

Mind games: Game engines as an architecture for intuitive physics

TD Ullman, E Spelke, P Battaglia… - Trends in cognitive …, 2017 - cell.com
We explore the hypothesis that many intuitive physical inferences are based on a mental
physics engine that is analogous in many ways to the machine physics engines used in …

Functional neuroanatomy of intuitive physical inference

J Fischer, JG Mikhael… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
To engage with the world—to understand the scene in front of us, plan actions, and predict
what will happen next—we must have an intuitive grasp of the world's physical structure and …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions between areas of the cortical grasping network

M Davare, A Kraskov, JC Rothwell… - Current opinion in …, 2011 - Elsevier
Skilled grasp is a sensorimotor process requiring the brain to extract sensory cues from the
environment to shape a motor command. Although a large body of literature has focused on …

The macaque lateral grasping network: a neural substrate for generating purposeful hand actions

E Borra, M Gerbella, S Rozzi, G Luppino - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2017 - Elsevier
In primates, neural mechanisms for controlling skilled hand actions primarily rely on
sensorimotor transformations. These transformations are mediated by circuits linking specific …

[HTML][HTML] Representation of object weight in human ventral visual cortex

JP Gallivan, JS Cant, MA Goodale, JR Flanagan - Current Biology, 2014 - cell.com
Skilled manipulation requires the ability to predict the weights of viewed objects based on
learned associations linking object weight to object visual appearance [1–5]. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Invariant representations of mass in the human brain

S Schwettmann, JB Tenenbaum, N Kanwisher - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
An intuitive understanding of physical objects and events is critical for successfully
interacting with the world. Does the brain achieve this understanding by running simulations …

Anatomical evidence for the involvement of the macaque ventrolateral prefrontal area 12r in controlling goal-directed actions

E Borra, M Gerbella, S Rozzi… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
The macaque ventrolateral prefrontal (VLPF) area 12r is thought to be involved in higher-
order nonspatial information processing. We found that this area is connectionally …

[HTML][HTML] Sensorimotor memory biases weight perception during object lifting

V Van Polanen, M Davare - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
When lifting an object, the brain uses visual cues and an internal object representation to
predict its weight and scale fingertip forces accordingly. Once available, tactile information is …

[HTML][HTML] Manipulation tasks in hazardous environments using a teleoperated robot: A case study at cern

C Gentile, G Lunghi, LR Buonocore, F Cordella… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Remote robotic systems are employed in the CERN accelerator complex to perform different
tasks, such as the safe handling of cables and their connectors. Without dedicated control …