ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2019
Low or High-Level Motor Coding? The Role of Stimulus Complexity.
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- The social relevance and the temporal constraints of motor resonance in humans.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Decoding motor expertise from fine-tuned oscillatory network organization.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
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- Photographs of Actions: What Makes Them Special Cues to Social Perception.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Visual Attention and Motion Visibility Modulate Motor Resonance during Observation of Human Walking in Different Manners.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- How social is the cerebellum? Exploring the effects of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation on the prediction of social and physical events.Brain structure & function · 2021Article
- Autistic Traits Differently Account for Context-Based Predictions of Physical and Social Events.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Spatial frequency tuning of motor responses reveals differential contribution of dorsal and ventral systems to action comprehension.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Sensorimotor Expectations Bias Motor Resonance during Observation of Object Lifting: The Causal Role of pSTS.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have shown that observing an action induces activity in the onlooker's motor system. In light of the muscle specificity and time-locked mirroring nature of the effect, this motor resonance has been traditionally viewed as an inner automatic replica of the observed movement. Notably, studies highlighting this aspect have classically considered movement in isolation (i.e., using non-realistic stimuli such as snapshots of hands detached from background). However, a few recent studies accounting for the role of contextual cues, motivational states, and social factors, have challenged this view by showing that motor resonance is not completely impervious to top-down modulations. A debate is still present. We reasoned that motor resonance reflects the inner replica of the observed movement only when its modulation is assessed during the observation of movements in isolation. Conversely, the presence of top-down modulations of motor resonance emerges when other high-level factors (i.e., contextual cues, past experience, social, and motivational states) are taken into account. Here, we attempt to lay out current TMS studies assessing this issue and discuss the results in terms of their potential to favor the inner replica or the top-down modulation hypothesis. In doing so, we seek to shed light on this actual debate and suggest specific avenues for future research, highlighting the need for a more ecological approach when studying motor resonance phenomenon.
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