Topic · Social Psychology · Psychology

Action Observation and Synchronization

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Animal Behavior & CognitionPsychophysiologyPeer-reviewedFeb 1, 2026

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Respiratory synchrony and individual differences causally influence dyadic interpersonal coordination

In musical dyads, perturbing breathing disrupts both respiratory and auditory-motor synchronization whereas perturbing tapping disrupts only behavior, demonstrating a unidirectional causal influence from respiration to behavioral coordination.

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humanbehavioral assay

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NeuroscienceNeuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsPeer-reviewedAug 9, 2018

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Neural Correlates of Motor Imagery, Action Observation, and Movement Execution: A Comparison Across Quantitative Meta-Analyses

Robert M. Hardwick, Svenja Caspers, Simon Bodo Eickhoff, Stephan Patrick Swinnen

Coordinate-based meta-analyses reveal a premotor, rostral parietal, and somatosensory core shared by motor imagery, action observation, and execution; only imagery and execution share putamen and cerebellum.

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humanimaging

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