Motor system evolution and the emergence of high cognitive functions

G Mendoza, H Merchant - Progress in neurobiology, 2014 - Elsevier
In human and nonhuman primates, the cortical motor system comprises a collection of brain
areas primarily related to motor control. Existing evidence suggests that no other …

Critical brain regions for tool-related and imitative actions: a componential analysis

LJ Buxbaum, AD Shapiro, HB Coslett - Brain, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Numerous functional neuroimaging studies suggest that widespread bilateral parietal,
temporal, and frontal regions are involved in tool-related and pantomimed gesture …

[HTML][HTML] The topographical organization of motor processing: An ALE meta-analysis on six action domains and the relevance of Broca's region

G Papitto, AD Friederici, E Zaccarella - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Action is a cover term used to refer to a large set of motor processes differing in domain
specificities (eg execution or observation). Here we review neuroimaging evidence on …

Task-based mirror therapy augmenting motor recovery in poststroke hemiparesis: a randomized controlled trial

KN Arya, S Pandian, D Kumar, V Puri - Journal of Stroke and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background To establish the effect of the task-based mirror therapy (TBMT) on the upper
limb recovery in stroke. Methods A pilot, randomized, controlled, assessor-blinded trial was …

Walk like me, talk like me: The connection between mirror neurons and autism spectrum disorder

JM Saffin, H Tohid - Neurosciences Journal, 2016 - nsj.org.sa
Understanding social cognition has become a hallmark in deciphering autism spectrum
disorder. Neurobiological theories are taking precedence in causation studies as …

Shared and distinct neuroanatomic regions critical for tool-related action production and recognition: evidence from 131 left-hemisphere stroke patients

LY Tarhan, CE Watson, LJ Buxbaum - Journal of Cognitive …, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
The inferior frontal gyrus and inferior parietal lobe have been characterized as human
homologues of the monkey “mirror neuron” system, critical for both action production (AP) …

EEG signal reconstruction using a generative adversarial network with wasserstein distance and temporal-spatial-frequency loss

T Luo, Y Fan, L Chen, G Guo, C Zhou - Frontiers in neuroinformatics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Applications based on electroencephalography (EEG) signals suffer from the mutual
contradiction of high classification performance vs. low cost. The nature of this contradiction …

Effect of activity-based mirror therapy on lower limb motor-recovery and gait in stroke: A randomised controlled trial

KN Arya, S Pandian, V Kumar - Neuropsychological rehabilitation, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To determine the effect of activity-based mirror therapy (MT) on motor recovery
and gait in chronic poststroke hemiparetic subjects. Design: A randomised, controlled …

Action perception recruits the cerebellum and is impaired in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia

AR Abdelgabar, J Suttrup, R Broersen, R Bhandari… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Our cerebellum has been proposed to generate prediction signals that may help us plan and
execute our motor programmes. However, to what extent our cerebellum is also actively …

The effect of action observation/execution on mirror neuron system recruitment: an fMRI study in healthy individuals

R Gatti, MA Rocca, S Fumagalli, E Cattrysse… - Brain Imaging and …, 2017 - Springer
Action observation and execution activate regions that are part of the motor and mirror
neuron systems (MNS). Using functional magnetic resonance (fMRI), we defined the …