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The file Data proactive.xlsx reports the latency of participants' gaze shifts towards the end of a dots configuration translational movement, calculated from the time of dots configuration movement onset, in five different... more
The file Data proactive.xlsx reports the latency of participants' gaze shifts towards the end of a dots configuration translational movement, calculated from the time of dots configuration movement onset, in five different Experiments. The total duration of dots configuration movement was 1600 ms. Each sheet separately reports gaze latency in milliseconds recorded from each participant, during each trial, in each Experiment. The folder Stimuli contains 9 videos used as stimuli in Experiment 1 (Video 1, and 2), Experiment 2 (Video 3, and 4), Experiment 3 (Video 5, and 6), Experiment 4 (Video 7, and 8), and Experiment 5 (Video 9). The file Videos legends.docx describes each video.
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Research Interests: Psychology, Cognitive Science, Sign Language, Gesture, Social Neuroscience, and 15 moreGesture Recognition, Language, Medicine, Action observation, Gestures, Humans, Female, Male, Mirror Neuron, Adult, Neurosciences, Frontal Lobe, Functional Laterality, Psychomotor Performance, and photic stimulation
Research Interests: Neuroscience, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Perception, Visual perception, and 13 moreSpeech perception, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Medicine, Humans, Electromagnetic Fields, Mirror Neuron, Motor Cortex, Motor System, Motor Evoked Potentials, Premotor cortex, Action (Physics), Neurosciences, and photic stimulation
Research Interests: Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Perception, Visual perception, Facial expression, and 15 moreMedicine, Action observation, Emotions, Brain Mapping, Humans, Movement, Female, Male, Young Adult, Posture, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Facial Action Coding System, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, and Medical and Health Sciences
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Research Interests: Neuroscience, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Perception, and 12 moreSpeech perception, Speech Production, Neurolinguistics, Linguistics, Language Production, Motor Theory of Speech Perception, Mirror Neuron, Motor System, Empirical evidence, Motor Function, Frontal Lobe, and Limiting
Research Interests: Neuroscience, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Perception, Cognition, and 15 moreInformation Integration, Medicine, Humans, Sensorimotor integration, Mirror Neuron, Motor Cortex, Premotor cortex, Hand, Action Representation, Primary Motor Cortex, Neurosciences, Mono, Functional Laterality, Psychomotor Performance, and Motor Neurons
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Research Interests: Psychology, Music, Mirror Neurons, Language, Medicine, and 13 moreMultidisciplinary, Language Production, Language Comprehension, Humans, Mirror Neuron System, Mirror Neuron, Premotor cortex, Inferior frontal gyrus, Action (Physics), Brain Function, Frontal Lobe, Motor Skills, and Hierarchical Structure
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Luciano Fadiga et Laila Craighero « Chapitre 11. Représentation des actions de la main et du langage dans l'aire de Broca : le rôle des neurones miroirs », in Psychose, langage et action, De Boeck Université, 2009, p.... more
Luciano Fadiga et Laila Craighero « Chapitre 11. Représentation des actions de la main et du langage dans l'aire de Broca : le rôle des neurones miroirs », in Psychose, langage et action, De Boeck Université, 2009, p. 191-200. URL : www.cairn.info/psychose-langage-et-action --9782804120702-page-191.htm.
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Research Interests: Neuroscience, Psychology, Electrophysiology, Speech perception, Medicine, and 15 moreAction observation, Brain, Humans, Animals, Mirror Neuron, Clinical Sciences, Clinical Neurophysiology, Motor System, Motor Imagery, Premotor cortex, Action Representation, Experimental Data, Neurosciences, Functional Properties, and Psychomotor Performance
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There is experimental evidence that the brain systems involved in action execution also play a role in action observation and understanding. Recently, it has been suggested that the sensorimotor system is also involved in language... more
There is experimental evidence that the brain systems involved in action execution also play a role in action observation and understanding. Recently, it has been suggested that the sensorimotor system is also involved in language processing. Supporting results are slower response times and weaker motor-related MEG Beta band power suppression in semantic decision tasks on single action verbs labels when the stimulus and the motor response involve the same effector. Attenuated power suppression indicates decreased cortical excitability and consequent decreased readiness to act. The embodied approach forwards that the simultaneous involvement of the sensorimotor system in the processing of the linguistic content and in the planning of the response determines this language-motor interference effect. Here, in a combined behavioral and MEG study we investigated to what extent the processing of actions visually presented (i.e., pictures of actions) and verbally described (i.e., verbs in w...
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Research Interests: Traumatic Brain Injury, EEG, Electroencephalography, Medicine, tDCS, and 9 moreClinical Neurology, Brain injury, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Minimally conscious state, Coma Recovery Scale Revised, Persistent Vegetative State, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, and Medical and Health Sciences
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The recent finding that Broca’s area, the motor center for speech, is activated during action observation lends support to the idea that human language may have evolved from neural substrates already involved in gesture recognition.... more
The recent finding that Broca’s area, the motor center for speech, is activated during action observation lends support to the idea that human language may have evolved from neural substrates already involved in gesture recognition. Although fascinating, this hypothesis can be questioned because while observing actions of others we may evoke some internal, verbal description of the observed scene. Here we present fMRI evidence that the involvement of Broca’s area during action observation is genuine. Observation of meaningful hand shadows resembling moving animals induces a bilateral activation of frontal language areas. This activation survives the subtraction of activation by semantically equivalent stimuli, as well as by meaningless hand movements. Our results demonstrate that Broca’s area plays a role in interpreting actions of others. It might act as a motor-assembly system, which links and interprets motor sequences for both speech and hand gestures.
Corticospinal excitability is speci_cally modulated by motor imagery] a magnetic stimulation study
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Robotica antropomorfa website. Docenti: Pietro Morasso, Giorgio Metta, Francesco Nori. - Semestre precedente: cliccare qui. Orario lezioni: Martedi' 11-13 (Aula E0), Mercoledi' 17-19 (Aula B5). ESAMI: 30 giugno ore 17 Villa... more
Robotica antropomorfa website. Docenti: Pietro Morasso, Giorgio Metta, Francesco Nori. - Semestre precedente: cliccare qui. Orario lezioni: Martedi' 11-13 (Aula E0), Mercoledi' 17-19 (Aula B5). ESAMI: 30 giugno ore 17 Villa Bonino, 14 luglio ore 17 Villa Bonino. Per contattare Pietro Morasso: http://www.laboratorium.dist.unige.it/~ piero/teaching.html. Per contattare Giorgio Metta: tel: 010-353-2946 oppure 010-71781411 email: pasa (AT) liralab.it web: http://pasa.liralab.it. ...
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Neuropsychological, behavioral, and neurophysiological evidence indicates that the coding of space as near and far depends on the involvement of different neuronal circuits. These circuits are recruited on the basis of functional... more
Neuropsychological, behavioral, and neurophysiological evidence indicates that the coding of space as near and far depends on the involvement of different neuronal circuits. These circuits are recruited on the basis of functional parameters, not of metrical ones, reflecting a general distinction of human behavior, which alternatively attributes to the individual the role of agent or observer. Although much research in cognitive psychology was devoted to demonstrating that language and concepts are rooted in the sensorimotor system, no study has investigated the presence of implicit associations between different adverbs of place (far vs. near) and actions with different functional characteristics. Using a series of Implicit Association Test (IAT) experiments, we tested this possibility for both actions performed in physical space (grasp vs. look at) and those performed when using digital technology (content generation vs. content consumption). For both the physical and digital envir...
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Non-verbal communication enables efficient transfer of information among people. In this context, classic orchestras are a remarkable instance of interaction and communication aimed at a common aesthetic goal: musicians train for years in... more
Non-verbal communication enables efficient transfer of information among people. In this context, classic orchestras are a remarkable instance of interaction and communication aimed at a common aesthetic goal: musicians train for years in order to acquire and share a non-linguistic framework for sensorimotor communication. To this end, we recorded violinists' and conductors' movement kinematics during execution of Mozart pieces, searching for causal relationships among musicians by using the Granger Causality method (GC). We show that the increase of conductor-to-musicians influence, together with the reduction of musician-to-musician coordination (an index of successful leadership) goes in parallel with quality of execution, as assessed by musical experts' judgments. Rigorous quantification of sensorimotor communication efficacy has always been complicated and affected by rather vague qualitative methodologies. Here we propose that the analysis of motor behavior prov...
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Research Interests: Psychology, Perception, Phonetics, Semantics, Speech perception, and 15 moreMagnetic Resonance Imaging, Medicine, Information Processing, Speech, Humans, Female, Mirror Neuron System, Male, Rhyme, Neurons, Adult, Frontal Lobe, Motor activity, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, and Medical and Health Sciences
Embodied cognition theories suggest that observation of facial expression induces the same pattern of muscle activation, and that this contributes to emotion recognition. Consequently, the inability to form facial expressions would affect... more
Embodied cognition theories suggest that observation of facial expression induces the same pattern of muscle activation, and that this contributes to emotion recognition. Consequently, the inability to form facial expressions would affect emotional understanding. Patients with schizophrenia show a reduced ability to express and perceive facial emotions. We assumed that a physical training specifically developed to mobilize facial muscles could improve the ability to perform facial movements, and, consequently, spontaneous mimicry and facial expression recognition. Twenty-four inpatient participants with schizophrenia were randomly assigned to the experimental and control group. At the beginning and at the end of the study, both groups were submitted to a facial expression categorization test and their data compared. The experimental group underwent a training period during which the lip muscles, and the muscles around the eyes were mobilized through the execution of transitive actio...
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Others' action observation activates in the observer a coordinated hand-eye motor program, covert for the hand (i.e. motor resonance), and overt for the eye (i.e. proactive gaze), similar to that of the observed agent. The biological... more
Others' action observation activates in the observer a coordinated hand-eye motor program, covert for the hand (i.e. motor resonance), and overt for the eye (i.e. proactive gaze), similar to that of the observed agent. The biological motion hypothesis of action anticipation claims that proactive gaze occurs only in the presence of biological motion, and that kinematic information is sufficient to determine the anticipation process. The results of the present study did not support the biological motion hypothesis of action anticipation. Specifically, proactive gaze was present during observation of both a biological accelerated-decelerated motion and a non-biological constant velocity motion (Experiment 1), in the presence of a barrier able to restrict differences between the two kinematics to the motion profile of individual markers prior to contact (Experiment 2), but only if an object was present at the end point of the movement trajectory (Experiment 3). Furthermore, proactive gaze was found independently of the presence of end effects temporally congruent with the instant in which the movement stopped (Experiments 4, and 5). We propose that the involvement of the observer's motor system is not restricted to when the agent moves with natural kinematics, and it is mandatory whenever the presence of an agent or a goal is evident, regardless of physical appearance, natural kinematics, and the possibility to identify the action behind the stimulus.