The finding of mirror neurons (MNs) has provided a biological substrate to a new concept of
cognition, relating data on actions and perceptions not only to integrate perception in action …

Are there distinct roles for intention and motor representation in explaining the
purposiveness of action? Standard accounts of action assign a role to intention but are silent …

Body-specific mental rotation is thought to rely upon internal representations of motor
actions. Handedness is a source of distinctly different motor experience that shapes the …

Background: To compare early visual changes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
patients with healthy controls in a baseline exploration, to follow-up the patients after 6 …

Objective Women with anorexia nervosa (AN) act as if they have a larger body, as
evidenced in obstacle avoidance tasks, where an allocentric perspective is adopted. This …

Objectives To assess RNFL thickness in ALS patients and compare it to healthy controls,
and to detect possible correlations between RNFL thickness in ALS patients and disease …

There is a common saying for expressing familiarity with something. It refers to our hands,
and strangely enough, in English, one says to know something like the back of the hand …

Mixed findings characterize studies in Parkinson's disease (PD): some studies indicate a
relationship between physical impairments and the ability to mentally represent the body …

The hand laterality task (HLT) and the foot laterality task (FLT) are used to explore motor
imagery, the ability to imagine an action without executing it. With our limbs, we interact with …

Motor imagery (MI) allows one to mentally represent an action without necessarily
performing it. Importantly, however, MI is profoundly influenced by the ability to actually …