Music performance is both a natural human activity, present in all societies, and one of the
most complex and demanding cognitive challenges that the human mind can undertake …

The brain is a plastic organ with a capability to reorganize in response to behavior and/or
injury. Following injury to the motor cortex or emergent corticospinal pathways, recovery of …

Working memory subsumes the capability to memorize, retrieve and utilize information for a
limited period of time which is essential to many human behaviours. Moreover, impairments …

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 …

Drawing on the disciplines of neurophysiology and physics, Neuromechanics of Human
Movement, Fourth Edition, explores how the nervous system controls the actions of muscles …

Sequence learning underlies numerous motor, cognitive, and social skills. Previous models
and empirical investigations of sequence learning in humans and non-human animals have …

We examined the frontal lobe connections of the digit representations in the primary motor
cortex (M1), the dorsal premotor area (PMd), and the ventral premotor area (PMv) of cebus …

Characteristic fear behaviour like putting the hands in front of the face and running for cover
provides strong fear signals to observers who may not themselves be aware of any danger …

A remarkable feature of the human brain is its ability to integrate information from the
environment with internally generated content. The integration of top-down and bottom-up …

Being exposed to fear or anger signals makes us feel threatened and prompts us to prepare
an adaptive response. Yet, while fear and anger behaviors are both threat signals, what …