Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Clara Seifert, Jingkang Zhao, Marie-Luise Brandi, Thabea Kampe, Joachim Hermsdoerfer, Afra Wohlschlaeger
Summary: This fMRI study investigated the age-related changes in the neural correlates involved in planning and executing a complex object manipulation task in healthy older and younger adults. The results showed that the left-lateralized network involved in tool use performance is not affected by age-related functional reorganization, but age-related changes were observed in the strategic application process, indicating a stronger emphasis on planning and preparatory phase in older participants.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marie Martel, Livio Finos, Eric Koun, Alessandro Farne, Alice Catherine Roy
Summary: The study found that the development of tools usage follows a U-shaped trajectory during adolescence, with changes in kinematics from early to mid puberty seeming to reflect a shortened arm representation, opposite to what was previously reported in adults. This pattern starts reversing after mid puberty, with the typical adult-like pattern emerging only at late puberty.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Donncha Lane, Alessia Tessari, Giovanni Ottoboni, Jonathan Marsden
Summary: This study investigated how body representation was affected in people with and without apraxia following a supratentorial stroke, with results showing deficits in online body representations in apraxic individuals. Future research should focus on targeting body schema deficits as an adjunct in the rehabilitation of apraxia.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
D. Romano, G. Tosi, V. Gobbetto, P. Pizzagalli, R. Avesani, V. Moro, A. Maravita
Summary: The study found that MB training improved apraxia compared to imitation and rest conditions, and this improvement was correlated with the impact of the mirror box on body representation. MB training shows promising effects in promoting recovery from apraxia.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Alessia Tessari, Paola Mengotti, Luca Faccioli, Giovanni Tuozzi, Silvia Boscarato, Mariangela Taricco, Raffaella I. Rumiati
Summary: The study aimed to investigate the differences in imitation performance between finger and hand/arm gestures among left-brain damaged patients, with or without apraxia, as well as healthy controls. Results showed that left-brain damaged patients imitated meaningless finger movements worse than hand/arm movements, while apraxic patients had difficulties imitating finger movements compared to hand/arm movements. Additionally, apraxic patients' imitation performance was equally affected regardless of the action meaning, unlike non-apraxic patients who performed better on meaningful gestures.
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Michiel van Elk
Summary: This paper introduces the theory of predictive processing as a framework to explain human tool use ability, emphasizing the need to complement the model with a functional-evolutionary perspective. Cross-cultural and comparative studies demonstrate how tools can facilitate cultural and technological evolution. Core premises of the predictive processing framework, such as Bayesian inference and prediction-error updating, engage with central debates in evolutionary psychology.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Mitchell W. Isaacs, Laurel J. Buxbaum, Aaron L. Wong
Summary: Imitating observed actions is an efficient method for learning novel movements. This study investigated the role of proprioception in imitation and found that representing movement goals proprioceptively is crucial for successful imitation. Patients with apraxia, a neurological disorder commonly seen after left hemisphere stroke, showed deficits in representing and accessing proprioceptive goals, which contributed to their imitation impairments.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Veronica U. Weser, Dennis R. Proffitt
Summary: Studies have shown that the user's tool experience or expertise is crucial for successful tool embodiment, with differences in body representation changes between novices and experts when interacting with their own tools. Therefore, assessing tool skill is important in future studies of tool embodiment.
TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Sungyang Jo, Jungsu S. Oh, E-Nae Cheong, Hyung Ji Kim, Sunju Lee, Minyoung Oh, Jae Seung Kim, Sun Ju Chung, Chong S. Lee, Miseon Kwon, Dongwha Kang, Jae-Hong Lee
Summary: This study used FDG-PET to reveal distinct glucose hypometabolism patterns in ideomotor and imitation apraxia subtypes in CBS patients. Patients with both ideomotor and imitation apraxia were more likely to exhibit the typical features of CBS and progressive supranuclear palsy compared to those with only one type of apraxia. These findings contribute to our understanding of the brain networks underlying apraxia in relation to the clinical features of CBS.
PARKINSONISM & RELATED DISORDERS
(2021)
Article
Robotics
Hyogo Hiruma, Hiroshi Ito, Hiroki Mori, Tetsuya Ogata
Summary: This study introduces a novel robot motion generation model inspired by human cognitive structure to address the lack of ability in existing methods to actively modify perception. The model incorporates a state-driven active top-down visual attention module that acquires attentions based on task states, improving the flexibility of visual perception in the model.
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Alessia Tessari, Giovanni Ottoboni
Summary: The way human bodies are represented is crucial in everyday activities. However, how different body representations covertly interact when observing body parts is still unclear. This study investigated the implicit processing of body parts by manipulating the posture of the stimuli or the participants' response posture. The results showed that observing body parts oriented participants' attention and facilitated responses that were spatially compatible with the body structure.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Iris M. Vennis, Mirjam M. Schaap, Petra A. M. Hogervorst, Arnout de Bruin, Sjors Schulpen, Marijke A. Boot, Mark W. J. van Passel, Saskia A. Rutjes, Diederik A. Bleijs
Summary: Research on pathogenic organisms is crucial but can be misused for dual-use purposes. The Netherlands Biosecurity Office has developed a tool to assess potential dual-use risks of research and promote awareness among scientists.
FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Nina Rohrbach, Carmen Krewer, Lisa Loehnert, Annika Thierfelder, Jennifer Randerath, Klaus Jahn, Joachim Hermsdoerfer
Summary: The study showed that limb apraxia patients performed better in pantomiming tool use when using augmented reality and dynamic cues, with their performance approaching that of real tool demonstration. Good visual stimuli can enhance patients' pantomiming ability.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Ocean
Takefumi Higaki, Hirotada Hashimoto
Summary: Automatic collision avoidance systems using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) can eliminate maritime accidents caused by human error. However, designing rewards for ambiguous tasks like following COLREGs can be challenging. This study introduces generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) and a route planning algorithm to address these challenges, demonstrating the capability of DRL to generate collision avoidance trajectories and imitate expert performance.
APPLIED OCEAN RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yue Lin, Qinxue Liu, Di Qi, Juyuan Zhang, Zien Ding
Summary: The study found that smartphones can be integrated into the body schema and extend body representation, with an increased perceived forearm length after imagining using a smartphone. There was no significant difference between high-frequency smartphone users and low-frequency smartphone users in the experiments.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Anesthesiology
C. Corradi-Dell'Acqua, M. Foerster, G. Sharvit, L. Trueb, E. Foucault, Y. Fournier, P. Vuilleumier, O. Hugli
BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA
(2019)
Article
Anesthesiology
Lia Antico, Eugenie Cataldo, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN
(2019)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Giada Dirupo, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua, Maha Kashef, Martin Debbane, Deborah Badoud
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua, Roberta Ronchi, Marine Thomasson, Therese Bernati, Arnaud Saj, Patrik Vuilleumier
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
G. Sharvit, E. Lin, P. Vuilleumier, C. Corradi-Dell'Acqua
Article
Biology
Giada Dirupo, Sabrina Totaro, Jeanne Richard, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua
Summary: Medical training affects medical students' sensitivity to pain faces, lowering their ratings and decreasing neural responses. Distrust towards expression authenticity changes the way feedback is processed.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Fabio Campanella, Thomas West, Corrado Corradi Dell'Acqua, Miran Skrap
Summary: Extensive neuroimaging literature suggests that understanding others' thoughts and emotions involves a wide network of brain areas. However, the causal role played by these regions in social inferential abilities is still unclear. This study evaluated theory of mind deficits in brain tumour patients and found that damage to specific brain regions resulted in selective impairments in cognitive and affective theory of mind. Overall, the data provide novel evidence supporting the segregation of different aspects of the theory of mind network.
Article
Anesthesiology
Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Sandra Martin-Brevet, Luis Schumacher, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua
Summary: This study used models of probabilistic decision-making to investigate how uncertainty influences the valuation and assessment of another's pain. The results showed that the higher the expected pain, the more risk-averse individuals became, and they underestimated the pain of strangers. This bias may contribute to pain underestimation in clinical settings.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Lia Antico, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua
Summary: In the past two years, many countries have implemented strict social restrictions to contain the spread of COVID-19, resulting in negative impacts on people's mood and well-being. This research systematically investigated the influence of social isolation on the processing of facial expressions. The findings indicate that the lockdown negatively affected the processing of pain-specific information, while not influencing other components of affective facial responses.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Giada Dirupo, Paolo Garlasco, Cyrielle Chappuis, Gil Sharvit, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua
Summary: Inadequate treatment of pain is a common issue in modern society. Automatic diagnostic tools can predict pain unpleasantness from facial expressions, but may mistakenly detect disgust. It is important to differentiate between pain and disgust using a combination of facial information from the eyes and the mouth.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Nicolas Silvestrini, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua
Summary: The influence of pain on subsequent cognitive performance is examined in this study. Results showed that cognitive performance was moderately lower after a painful task compared to a non-painful task. However, the decrease in performance was not associated with a decrease in effort or an increase in cardiac reactivity. Additionally, higher pain ratings were related to lower self-reported capacity to perform the cognitive task. These findings highlight the complex relationship between pain, effort, and performance.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Laura Riontino, Raphael Fournier, Alexandra Lapteva, Nicolas Silvestrini, Sophie Schwartz, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua
Summary: Correctly evaluating others' pain is crucial, but the impact of cognitive strain on assessing others' pain is still unclear. Two demanding tasks were conducted and it was found that cognitive exertion affected the appraisal of both one's own and others' pain, decreasing sensitivity to medium and high pain events.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua, Christoph Hofstetter, Gil Sharvit, Olivier Hugli, Patrik Vuilleumier
Summary: Medical students and healthcare providers often underestimate patients' pain, and the neural responses to pain information in the anterior insula (AI) is decreased. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the impact of healthcare experience on the brain reactivity to others' pain, emotions, and beliefs. The results showed that healthcare experience reduced the activity in AI in response to others' suffering, specifically for pain-related stimuli.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Nicolas Silvestrini, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua
Summary: Previous studies have shown that distraction through challenging activities leads to reduced pain sensitivity, which is mediated by parietal and prefrontal processes. This study found that distraction affects the neural response to pain by making it more similar to the response associated with previous cognitive tasks. The study also highlighted the independent influence of executive functions on pain processing.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Neuroimaging
Kimberly C. Doell, Emilie Olie, Philippe Courtet, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua, Nader Perroud, Sophie Schwartz
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
(2020)