Sensorimotor representations in the brain encode the sensory and motor aspects of one's own bodily activity. It is highly debated whether sensorimotor representations are the core basis for the representation of action-related knowledge and, in particular, action words, such as verbs. In this review, we will address this question by bringing to bear insights from the study of brain-damaged pati...

Abstract The Hurst exponent (H) isolated in fractal analyses of neuroimaging time series is implicated broadly cognition. Within this literature, H associated with multiple mental disorders, suggesting that transdimensionally psychopathology. Here, we unify these results and demonstrate a pattern decreased increased general psychopathology attention-deficit/hyperactivity factor scores during wo...

BACKGROUND It is important to understand the motor deficits of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). Our understanding of this motor disorder can be enriched by computational models of motor control. One crucial stage in generating movement involves combining uncertain information from different sources, and deficits in this process could contribute to reduced motor function in children with CP. H...

Studies of speech sensorimotor learning often manipulate auditory feedback by modifying isolated acoustic parameters such as formant frequency or fundamental frequency using near real-time resynthesis of a participant's speech. An alternative approach is to engage a participant in a total remapping of the sensorimotor working space using a virtual vocal tract. To support this approach for study...

Hippocampal theta has been related to locomotor speed, attention, anxiety, sensorimotor integration and memory among other emergent phenomena. One difficulty in understanding the function of theta is that the hippocampus (HPC) modulates voluntary behavior at the same time that it processes sensory input. Both functions are correlated with characteristic changes in theta indices. The current rev...

Traditionally, the awake cerebral neurosurgical interventions are carried out when the primary motor areas and the areas involved in language are concerned. This procedure is also known as mapping (Intraoperative Brain Mapping). The intraoperative neuropsychological protocol supposes the setting of a list of steps and tasks that the patient must perform during the surgery, taking into account t...

1. Monkeys learned to maintain hand position against a range of background forces. Short-latency responses to passive wrist extension or flexion were recorded from units in areas 4, 3, 1, and 2. Response amplitude was studied as a function of background force direction (extension or flexion). 2. For 40% of the precentral and postcentral responses, response amplitude depended on constant force d...