One of the most striking demonstrations of plasticity in the adult human brain follows peripheral injury, such as amputation. In the primary sensorimotor cortex, arm amputation results in massive local remapping of the missing hands' cortical territory. However, little is known about the consequences of sensorimotor deprivation on global brain organisation. Here, we used resting-state fMRI to i...

PURPOSE Our purpose was to assess the pattern of functional MR activation obtained with a passive sensory versus an active sensorimotor hand stimulus paradigm. METHODS Eight functional MR runs, four with an active sensorimotor (sponge-squeezing) task and four with a passive sensory (palm-finger brushing) reception, were acquired for each of 10 healthy volunteers. Activation maps were generate...

The study of capabilities a perceptual system can acquire from systematic exposure to sensorimotor correlations, i.e. the regular co-occurrence of motor patterns and sensory states, has become a major research trend in current cognitive science. Defendants of the sensorimotor approach have claimed that the study of sensorimotor learning can provide a coherent and parsimonious framework for unde...

Four experiments investigated the conditions contributing to sensorimotor alignment effects (i.e., the advantage for spatial judgments from imagined perspectives aligned with the body). Through virtual reality technology, participants learned object locations around a room (learning room) and made spatial judgments from imagined perspectives aligned or misaligned with their actual facing direct...

Anatomical deficits and resting-state functional connectivity (FC) alterations in prefrontal-thalamic-cerebellar circuit have been implicated in the neurobiology of schizophrenia. However, the effect of structural deficits in schizophrenia on causal connectivity of this circuit remains unclear. This study was conducted to examine the causal connectivity biased by structural deficits in first-ep...

This article sets out to examine the role of symbolic and sensorimotor representations in discourse comprehension. It starts out with a review of the literature on situation models, showing how mental representations are constrained by linguistic and situational factors. These ideas are then extended to more explicitly include sensorimotor representations. Following Zwaan and Madden (2005), the...