Action Observation and Synchronization

This study finds that synchronous marching increases conformity in perceptual decision-making tasks under low stimulus conditions.

This study uses pupillometry and whole-brain c-Fos mapping to show that emotional contagion in mice involves shared neural activation and multisensory processing.

The paper uses EEG frequency tagging to show that less similar observed actions are more integrated in the brain, suggesting integration-by-dissimilarity resolves conflicts in complex social scenes.

This study investigates visuo-tactile mirror system (TaMS) connectivity in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) using TMS-EEG, finding impaired TaMS function and altered somatosensory network connectivity in BPD patients.

This paper introduces a computational model based on game theory and Bayesian estimation to understand how joint coordination develops over repeated trials in human dyads.

The paper shows that emotional content in biological motion signals modulates pupil responses, with happy motion causing larger dilation than sad, and this effect relates to autistic traits.

This study examines motor and neural synchronization in mother-child dyads during structured and spontaneous interactions, finding that motor synchronization correlates with children's motor development.

The paper presents an open-access video database for action observation research, validated with psychometric tests and motion timing analysis, available on Open Science Framework.

The paper demonstrates that frontocentral beta oscillations causally contribute to understanding linguistic communicative functions through EEG and tACS experiments.

The paper introduces the BallGame paradigm to study social engagement, finding that coordination success and view similarity predict social experience.

This study investigates how age-related motor skills of agents performing actions influence perception/action coupling in adults using eye-tracking and pupil dilation.

This study shows that brain-to-brain coupling patterns during a time-estimation task can predict success or failure in joint action based on post-feedback theta power correlations.

This study uses eye-tracking to measure perception/action coupling in children with ASD by analyzing looking time and pupil dilation during video viewing of actions in forward and backward directions.

This study shows that the environment in which an observed action occurs influences motor contagions in humans, as participants moved faster after observing steering in a narrowing versus widening visual channel.

The paper investigates how action representations are organized in human cognition and language models, finding shared structure based on action targets across video and sentence modalities.

This study investigates whether autism traits affect top-down biological motion perception, finding no difference in temporal integration but a difference in perceptual focus between high and low autism trait groups.

The paper examines how mirror-pain synesthetes and non-synesthetes differ in their willingness to help others in pain, using fMRI to link brain activity to donation decisions across different pain-conveying modalities.

The paper investigates how dynamic cues like synchrony and common fate influence the perception of biological group movements, finding that synchrony enhances grouping while common fate does not.

The paper uses multivariate pattern analysis to show that the mu rhythm encodes information about familiar graspable objects but not unfamiliar ones, suggesting sensorimotor activation during visual perception.

The paper investigates theta activity in response to body images, finding a species-specific neural response to human bodies.

The paper examines mu suppression in different frequency subbands during action observation and finds stronger suppression in the lower subband for hand and facial actions.

This study compares social behavior and inter-brain connectivity in dyads with autistic individuals and typically developing participants during social imitation tasks, finding differences in role preference and inter-brain synchrony.

This study compares neural network topology during joint tapping between strangers and acquaintances, finding denser brain-to-brain coupling in strangers.

The paper examines how repeated facial emotion imitation affects neural spatiotemporal patterns in the mirror neuron system over time.

The paper investigates how humans coordinate joint actions through neural representations, finding that integrated motor plans emerge during synchronized interactions but not during independent ones.

This study identifies distinct temporo-occipital nodes with different connectivity patterns related to action perception using fMRI and independent component analysis.

This study compares the neural networks involved in action observation between dogs and humans using fMRI, finding similar somatosensory and temporal lobe involvement but less parietal lobe engagement in dogs.

This study examines how neural synchronization between speakers and listeners during storytelling reflects a 'herding effect' where listeners follow the speaker's brain activity patterns, enhancing narrative engagement.

The paper investigates motor simulation deficits in aphantasia by comparing MEP responses during motor imagery and action observation between phantasics and aphantasics.

The paper examines neural synchronization in the default mode network during the appearance of protagonists and antagonists in movies, finding higher synchronization in the inferior frontal gyrus and orbitofrontal cortex for protagonists.