The perception of objects does not rely only on visual brain areas, but also involves cortical
motor regions. In particular, different parietal and premotor areas host neurons discharging …

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

The mere observation of pictures or words referring to manipulable objects is sufficient to
evoke their affordances since objects and their nouns elicit components of appropriate motor …

The region surrounding our body (ie peripersonal space) is coded in a multimodal
representation by fronto-parietal bimodal neurons integrating tactile stimuli on the body with …

Affordances, ie the opportunity of actions offered by the environment, are one of the central
research topics for the theoretical perspectives that view cognition as emerging from the …

Anarchic hand syndrome (AHS) is a rare neurological condition characterized by seemingly
purposeful, goal-directed hand movements which the person afflicted by the syndrome is …

Self-and vicarious experience of physical pain induces inhibition of the motor cortex (M1).
Experience of social rejections recruits the same neural network as physical pain; however …

Anosognosia for hemiplegia is a lack of awareness of motor deficits following a right
hemisphere lesion. Residual forms of awareness co-occur with an explicit denial of …

Previous studies showed that affective valence (positive, negative) influences Stimulus–
Response Compatibility (SRC) effects elicited by both relevant and irrelevant spatial …

Previous work suggests that perception of an object automatically facilitates actions related
to object grasping and manipulation. Recently, the notion of automaticity has been …