The insular cortex, autonomic asymmetry and cardiovascular control: looking at the right side of stroke

MAP Fontes, LR dos Santos Machado… - Clinical Autonomic …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Evidence from animal and human studies demonstrates that cortical regions play a
key role in autonomic modulation with a differential role for some brain regions located in the …

The social relevance and the temporal constraints of motor resonance in humans

G Guidali, M Picardi, M Franca, A Caronni… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In humans, motor resonance effects can be tracked by measuring the enhancement of
corticospinal excitability by action observation. Uncovering factors driving motor resonance …

[HTML][HTML] Driving Hebbian plasticity over ventral premotor-motor projections transiently enhances motor resonance

E Chiappini, S Turrini, M Zanon, M Marangon… - Brain Stimulation, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Making sense of others' actions relies on the activation of an action observation
network (AON), which maps visual information about observed actions onto the observer's …

Associative Visuomotor Learning Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Induces Stimulus–Response Interference

LK Held, E Cracco, L Bardi, M Kiraga… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Classical conditioning states that the systematic co-occurrence of a neutral stimulus with an
unconditioned stimulus can cause the neutral stimulus to, over time, evoke the same …

Visuomotor paired associative stimulation for post-stroke hand motor impairments

M Picardi, G Guidali, A Caronni, V Rota, M Corbo… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Objectives. We assess the effectiveness of a visuomotor paired associative stimulation (vm-
PAS) protocol targeting the Action Observation Network (AON) in patients with chronic post …

M1 Large-scale Network Dynamics Support Human Motor Resonance and Its Plastic Reshaping

G Guidali, E Arrigoni, N Bolognini, A Pisoni - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Motor resonance-the activation of the observer's motor system when viewing others' actions-
grounds the intertwined nature of action perception and execution, with profound …