The sense of proprioception allows us to keep track of our limb posture and movements and
the sense of touch provides us with information about objects with which we come into …

Hominin evolution has involved a continuous process of addition of new kinds of cognitive
capacity, including those relating to manufacture and use of tools and to the establishment of …

Over the last decade, many neuroimaging studies have assessed the human brain networks
underlying action observation and imitation using a variety of tasks and paradigms …

The exact relation between the sense that one's body is one's own (body-ownership) and
the sense that one controls one's own bodily actions (agency) has been the focus of much …

We applied thermography to investigate the cognitive neuropsychology of emotions, using it
as a somatic marker of subjective experience during emotional tasks. We obtained results …

The sense of agency (SoA) refers to the perception that an action is the consequence of
one's own intention. Studies exploring the SoA with neuroimaging techniques summarized …

While the action observation and mentalizing networks are considered to play
complementary roles in understanding others' goals and intentions, they might be …

More than two decades ago, the mirror neuron system (MNS) was discovered in non-human
primates: Single-cell recordings detected visuo-motor neurons that discharged not only …

Self-awareness impairments are frequently mentioned as being responsible for the positive
symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. However, the neural correlates of self-other …

Previous neurophysiological studies performed in macaque monkeys have shown that the
secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) is essentially engaged in the processing of …