Vision for prehension in the medial parietal cortex

P Fattori, R Breveglieri, A Bosco, M Gamberini… - Cerebral …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In the last 2 decades, the medial posterior parietal area V6A has been extensively studied in
awake macaque monkeys for visual and somatosensory properties and for its involvement in …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of grasping

L Turella, A Lingnau - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Prehension, the capacity to reach and grasp objects, comprises two main components:
reaching, ie, moving the hand towards an object, and grasping, ie, shaping the hand with …

Organization and evolution of parieto-frontal processing streams in macaque monkeys and humans

R Caminiti, GM Innocenti, A Battaglia-Mayer - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
The functional organization of the parieto-frontal system is crucial for understanding
cognitive-motor behavior and provides the basis for interpreting the consequences of …

Computational architecture of the parieto-frontal network underlying cognitive-motor control in monkeys

R Caminiti, E Borra, F Visco-Comandini… - eneuro, 2017 - eneuro.org
The statistical structure of intrinsic parietal and parieto-frontal connectivity in monkeys was
studied through hierarchical cluster analysis. Based on their inputs, parietal and frontal …

[HTML][HTML] The posterior parietal area V6A: An attentionally-modulated visuomotor region involved in the control of reach-to-grasp action

C Galletti, M Gamberini, P Fattori - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
In the macaque, the posterior parietal area V6A is involved in the control of all phases of
reach-to-grasp actions: the transport phase, given that reaching neurons are sensitive to the …

Grasping-related functional magnetic resonance imaging brain responses in the macaque monkey

K Nelissen, W Vanduffel - Journal of Neuroscience, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Research in recent decades has suggested the existence of a dedicated brain network
devoted to the organization and execution of grasping, one of the most important and skilled …

Is the medial posterior parietal area V6A a single functional area?

M Gamberini, C Galletti, A Bosco… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
The visuomotor medial posterior parietal area V6A has been recently subdivided into two
cytoarchitectonic sectors called V6Ad and V6Av. The aim of the present study was to …

Vision for action in the macaque medial posterior parietal cortex

P Fattori, R Breveglieri, V Raos, A Bosco… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Area V6A encodes hand configurations for grasping objects. The aim of the present study
was to investigate whether V6A cells also encode three-dimensional objects, and the …

[HTML][HTML] Hierarchical human-inspired control strategies for prosthetic hands

C Gentile, F Cordella, L Zollo - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The abilities of the human hand have always fascinated people, and many studies have
been devoted to describing and understanding a mechanism so perfect and important for …

Motor decoding from the posterior parietal cortex using deep neural networks

D Borra, M Filippini, M Ursino, P Fattori… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Motor decoding is crucial to translate the neural activity for brain-computer
interfaces (BCIs) and provides information on how motor states are encoded in the brain …