The interpretation of mu suppression as an index of mirror neuron activity: past, present and future

HM Hobson, DVM Bishop - Royal Society open science, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mu suppression studies have been widely used to infer the activity of the human mirror
neuron system (MNS) in a number of processes, ranging from action understanding …

Insights into embodied cognition and mental imagery from aphantasia

EJ Muraki, LJ Speed, PM Pexman - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
Mental representations allow humans to think about, remember and communicate about an
infinite number of concepts. A key question within cognitive psychology is how the mind …

The power of neural oscillations to inform sentence comprehension: A linguistic perspective

Y Prystauka, AG Lewis - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The field of psycholinguistics is currently experiencing an explosion of interest in the
analysis of neural oscillations—rhythmic brain activity synchronized at different temporal and …

Brain inhibitory mechanisms are involved in the processing of sentential negation, regardless of its content. Evidence from EEG theta and beta rhythms

D Beltrán, Y Morera, E García-Marco… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The two-step process account of negation understanding posits an initial representation of
the negated events, followed by a representation of the actual state of events. On the other …

Riding the (brain) waves! Using neural oscillations to inform bilingualism research

E Rossi, SMP Soares, Y Prystauka… - Bilingualism …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The study of the brains' oscillatory activity has been a standard technique to gain insights
into human neurocognition for a relatively long time. However, as a complementary analysis …

How meaning unfolds in neural time: Embodied reactivations can precede multimodal semantic effects during language processing

AM García, S Moguilner, K Torquati, E García-Marco… - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Research on how the brain construes meaning during language use has prompted two
conflicting accounts. According to the 'grounded view', word understanding involves quick …

[HTML][HTML] Predictability alters information flow during action observation in human electrocorticographic activity

C Qin, F Michon, Y Onuki, Y Ishishita, K Otani, K Kawai… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
The action observation network (AON) has been extensively studied using short, isolated
motor acts. How activity in the network is altered when these isolated acts are embedded in …

[HTML][HTML] The neural inhibition network is causally involved in the disembodiment effect of linguistic negation

F Vitale, I Monti, I Padrón, A Avenanti, M de Vega - Cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
Negation applied to action contexts reduces the activation of the motor system. According to
the Reusing Inhibition for Negation (RIN) hypothesis, such “disembodiment” effect occurs …

Enhancing motor brain activity improves memory for action language: A tDCS study

F Vitale, I Padrón, A Avenanti, M De Vega - Cerebral Cortex, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The embodied cognition approach to linguistic meaning posits that action language
understanding is grounded in sensory–motor systems. However, evidence that the human …

Brain dynamics in the comprehension of action-related language. A time-frequency analysis of mu rhythms

I Moreno, M De Vega, I León, M Bastiaansen, AG Lewis… - NeuroImage, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract EEG mu rhythms (8–13 Hz) recorded at fronto-central electrodes are generally
considered as markers of motor cortical activity in humans, because they are modulated …