ReviewDevelopmental psychobiology2019
The role of the motor system in action understanding and communication: Evidence from human infants and non-human primates.
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- Experience with pointing gestures facilitates infant vocabulary growth through enhancement of sensorimotor brain activity.Developmental psychology · 2023Trial
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- The influence of sensorimotor experience on beauty evaluation of preschool children.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Advancing the RDoC initiative through the assessment of caregiver social processes.Development and psychopathology · 2021Article
- Learning non-adjacent rules and non-adjacent dependencies from human actions in 9-month-old infants.PloS one · 2021Article
- A Dynamic Systems Framework for Gender/Sex Development: From Sensory Input in Infancy to Subjective Certainty in Toddlerhood.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Pearl and pitfalls in brain functional analysis by event-related potentials: a narrative review by the Italian Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience Society on methodological limits and clinical reliability-part II.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2020Review
- High-density intracranial recordings reveal a distinct site in anterior dorsal precentral cortex that tracks perceived speech.Human brain mapping · 2020Article
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Abstract
There is growing evidence that activation of the motor system during observation of actions, a phenomenon first observed in non-human primates, underlies action understanding and even communication. This review (a) examines the evidence on motor system activity as an underlying neural correlate of action understanding; (b) reviews the theoretical and empirical work linking action understanding and the development of communication, with a specific focus on the role that gestures play as an intermediary; and (c) discusses the research on and existing opportunities for understanding the link between the motor system and communication in both humans and non-human primates, through the lens of action perception. Bringing together findings and perspectives from developmental social cognition in both humans and non-human primates and applying recent neuroscientific perspectives will help to elucidate the processes underlying the ability to understand and communicate with others.
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