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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

The middle cingulate cortex and dorso-central insula: A mirror circuit encoding observation and execution of vitality forms.

G Di Cesare, M Marchi, G Lombardi, M Gerbella, A Sciutti, G Rizzolatti

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Intranasal (R)-ketamine modulates depression symptom and neurotransmitters-associated human brain connectivity.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  8. Bridging feeling and motion: Insula-premotor dynamics in the processing of action vitality forms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  19. Two distinct networks for encoding goals and forms of action: An effective connectivity study.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

G Di CesareCognitive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies Unit, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova 16152, Italy.
M MarchiDepartment of Computer Science, University of Milan, Milan 20135, Italy.
G LombardiCognitive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies Unit, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova 16152, Italy.
M GerbellaDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma 43100, Italy.
A SciuttiCognitive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies Unit, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova 16152, Italy.
G RizzolattiDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma 43100, Italy; giacomo.rizzolatti@unipr.it.ORCID 0000-0001-9700-5171
Italian Institute of Technology · ITUniversity of Parma · ITUniversity of Milan · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Actions with identical goals can be executed in different ways (gentle, rude, vigorous, etc.), which D. N. Stern called vitality forms [D. N. Stern,

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AdultAttitudeBehaviorBrainBrain MappingCerebral CortexFemaleGyrus CinguliHumansInsular CortexMagnetic Resonance ImagingMalecingulateinsulamirror mechanismsocial interactionvitality form network

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PMID34716272
PMCPMC8612212
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