[HTML][HTML] From neurons to social beings: short review of the mirror neuron system research and its socio-psychological and psychiatric implications

H Jeon, SH Lee - Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The mirror neuron system (MNS) is a brain network activated when we move our body parts
and when we observe the actions of other agent. Since the mirror neuron's discovery in …

Structural and effective brain connectivity underlying biological motion detection

AA Sokolov, P Zeidman, M Erb… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The perception of actions underwrites a wide range of socio-cognitive functions. Previous
neuroimaging and lesion studies identified several components of the brain network for …

[HTML][HTML] The “social brain” is highly sensitive to the mere presence of social information: An automated meta-analysis and an independent study

IF Tso, S Rutherford, Y Fang, M Angstadt, SF Taylor - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
How the human brain processes social information is an increasingly researched topic in
psychology and neuroscience, advancing our understanding of basic human cognition and …

Visual systems

D Maurer, TL Lewis - The neurobiology of brain and behavioral …, 2018 - Elsevier
Vision is very immature at birth and takes many years to become adult-like. The immaturities
begin in the retina and extend to the primary visual cortex and throughout the dorsal and …

The functional and structural asymmetries of the superior temporal sulcus

K Specht, P Wigglesworth - Scandinavian journal of psychology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The superior temporal sulcus (STS) is an anatomical structure that increasingly interests
researchers. This structure appears to receive multisensory input and is involved in several …

Investigating common coding of observed and executed actions in the monkey brain using cross-modal multi-variate fMRI classification

PA Fiave, S Sharma, J Jastorff, K Nelissen - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Mirror neurons are generally described as a neural substrate hosting shared
representations of actions, by simulating or 'mirroring'the actions of others onto the …

Knowing dance or knowing how to dance?: Sources of expertise in aesthetic appreciation of human movement

G Orgs, B Calvo-Merino, ES Cross - The neurocognition of dance, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
In creating dance performances, performers and choreographers often engage in a
prolonged and highly collaborative artistic process. Whereas some studies show that …

[HTML][HTML] Differential resting-state connectivity patterns of the right anterior and posterior dorsolateral prefrontal cortices (DLPFC) in schizophrenia

N Chechko, EC Cieslik, VI Müller… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In schizophrenia (SCZ), dysfunction of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been
linked to the deficits in executive functions and attention. It has been suggested that, instead …

[HTML][HTML] Using a Kinect sensor to acquire biological motion: Toolbox and evaluation

Y Shi, X Ma, Z Ma, J Wang, N Yao, Q Gu… - Behavior Research …, 2018 - Springer
Biological motion (BM) is the movement of animate entities, which conveys rich social
information. To obtain pure BM, researchers nowadays predominantly use point-light …

Frontal and occipito-temporal Theta activity as marker of error monitoring in Human-Avatar joint performance

Q Moreau, M Candidi, V Era, G Tieri, SM Aglioti - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
The discrepancy between expected outcome and real outcome is at the base of error
coding, a crucial process during adaptive behaviours. Previous studies indicate that …