Trial reportPloS one2011
Modulation of brain activity during action observation: influence of perspective, transitivity and meaningfulness.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- Neural processing of social interaction: Coordinate-based meta-analytic evidence from human neuroimaging studies.Human brain mapping · 2019Pooled it
- Action Observation Training for Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation: A Pilot Study on the Role of Attention.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Effector-specific motor simulation supplements core action recognition processes in adverse conditions.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- The widespread action observation/execution matching system for facial expression processing.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Perspective-dependent reactivity of sensorimotor mu rhythm in alpha and beta ranges during action observation: an EEG study.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Testing the Motor Simulation Account of Source Errors for Actions in Recall.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Behavioral and TMS Markers of Action Observation Might Reflect Distinct Neuronal Processes.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
- Age-Related Differences in Corticospinal Excitability during Observation and Motor Imagery of Balance Tasks.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2016Article
- What Do Eye Gaze Metrics Tell Us about Motor Imagery?PloS one · 2015Article
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- Viewer perspective in the mirroring of actions.Experimental brain research · 2014Article
- Depicting the inner and outer nose: the representation of the nose and the nasal mucosa on the human primary somatosensory cortex (SI).Human brain mapping · 2014Article
- The affordance-matching hypothesis: how objects guide action understanding and prediction.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Article
- Contribution of the posterior parietal cortex in reaching, grasping, and using objects and tools.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Review
- Multiple roles of motor imagery during action observation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2013Review
- N400 ERPs for actions: building meaning in context.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2013Article
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- Effects of context on visuomotor interference depends on the perspective of observed actions.PloS one · 2013Article
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Abstract
The coupling process between observed and performed actions is thought to be performed by a fronto-parietal perception-action system including regions of the inferior frontal gyrus and the inferior parietal lobule. When investigating the influence of the movements' characteristics on this process, most research on action observation has focused on only one particular variable even though the type of movements we observe can vary on several levels. By manipulating the visual perspective, transitivity and meaningfulness of observed movements in a functional magnetic resonance imaging study we aimed at investigating how the type of movements and the visual perspective can modulate brain activity during action observation in healthy individuals. Importantly, we used an active observation task where participants had to subsequently execute or imagine the observed movements. Our results show that the fronto-parietal regions of the perception action system were mostly recruited during the observation of meaningless actions while visual perspective had little influence on the activity within the perception-action system. Simultaneous investigation of several sources of modulation during active action observation is probably an approach that could lead to a greater ecological comprehension of this important sensorimotor process.
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