Parkinson's disease (PD) is a disabling neurodegenerative disease whose manifestations
span motor, sensorimotor, and sensory domains. While current therapies for PD include …

Background Motor imagery (MI) has emerged as a promising therapeutic approach for
Parkinson's disease (PD). MI entails mentally rehearsing motor actions without executing …

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 …

Mechanisms underlying visual imagery, the ability to create vivid mental representations of a
scene in the absence of sensory input, remain to be fully understood. Some previous studies …

Dance is associated with beneficial outcomes in motor and non-motor domains in
Parkinson's disease (PD) and regular participation may help delay symptom progression in …

Motor imagery supports motor learning and performance and has the potential to be a useful
strategy for neurorehabilitation. However, motor imagery ability may be impacted by ageing …

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 …

Obesity is a clinical condition that impacts severely the physical body. However, evidence
related to the mental representation of the body in action is scarce. The few available studies …

The mental representation of the body in action can be explored using motor imagery (MI)
tasks. MI tasks can be allocated along a continuum going from more implicit to more explicit …

Body representation (BR) refers to the mental representation of motor, sensory, emotional
and semantic information about the physical body. This cognitive representation is used in …