The Role of the Motor System in Action Perception

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Dear Colleagues,

An increasing amount of evidence suggests that the activation of the motor system during perception can trigger higher-order social cognitive processes, such as reading intentions or understanding the actions and emotional states of others. The application of current neuroscientific perspectives to perceptuo-motor codes can help to explain the mechanisms that underlie central nervous system disorders that can block or alter multisensory and motor processing. To provide an interdisciplinary clinical framework for the unresolved question of how the human brain responds to the loss of multisensory and motor abilities and the implications for cognition and emotions, we welcome submissions that include behavioural, neuroanatomical, and neurophysiological studies as well as clinical and neuropsychological evidence. This knowledge is crucial for the development of novel therapies to treat perceptual-, movement-, and body-related disorders.

Dr. Mariella Pazzaglia
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Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Journal of Clinical Medicine jcm	3.0	5.7	2012	16 Days	CHF 2600
Behavioral Sciences behavsci	2.5	2.6	2011	28.7 Days	CHF 2200
Brain Sciences brainsci	2.7	4.8	2011	15.6 Days	CHF 2200
Psychiatry International psychiatryint	1.2	1.9	2020	32.7 Days	CHF 1000
Neurology International neurolint	3.2	3.7	2009	26.5 Days	CHF 1600

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Sleep Deprivation Influences Trial-to-Trial Transfer but Not Task Performance

by Bingyao Shen, Zhiqiang Tian, Jiajia Li, Yu Sun, Yi Xiao and Rixin Tang

J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11(19), 5513; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11195513 - 20 Sep 2022

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Previous research has shown that sleep deprivation can affect emotions and some cognitive functions. However, research on how sleep deprivation influences the visuomotor memory have rarely been reported. In the current study, a Fitts’ Law task was used to investigate how movement and [...] Read more.

Previous research has shown that sleep deprivation can affect emotions and some cognitive functions. However, research on how sleep deprivation influences the visuomotor memory have rarely been reported. In the current study, a Fitts’ Law task was used to investigate how movement and the visuomotor memory are affected under the condition of sleep deprivation. Experiment 1 had 36 participants (15 males, mean age = 21.61 years) complete the same Fitts’ Law task 10 days apart under standard conditions. Experiment 2 had five participants (three males, mean age = 27.2 years) complete the task after 7 days of sleep deprivation, then complete it again after 10 days without sleep deprivation. Experiment 1 demonstrated the stability of the trial-to-trial effects. Experiment 2 showed that the previous trial (n) exerted no effect on the current trial (n + 1) under the conditions of sleep deprivation (p = 0.672). However, the effect was observed after 10 days without sleep deprivation (p = 0.013). This suggests that sleep deprivation did not affect task performance but influenced the transfer of the trial history. Future studies are required to investigate the effect of sleep deprivation with more participants. Full article

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Impaired Relationship between Sense of Agency and Prediction Error Due to Post-Stroke Sensorimotor Deficits

by Yu Miyawaki, Takeshi Otani and Shu Morioka

J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11(12), 3307; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11123307 - 9 Jun 2022

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Sense of agency refers to the experience of controlling one’s actions. Studies on healthy people indicated that their self-other attribution can be realized based on prediction error which is an inconsistency between the internal prediction and sensory feedback of the movements. However, studies [...] Read more.

Sense of agency refers to the experience of controlling one’s actions. Studies on healthy people indicated that their self-other attribution can be realized based on prediction error which is an inconsistency between the internal prediction and sensory feedback of the movements. However, studies on patients with post-stroke sensorimotor deficits hypothesized that their self-other attribution can be based on different attribution strategies. This preliminary study examined this hypothesis by investigating whether post-stroke sensorimotor deficits can diminish the correlation between prediction errors and self-other judgments. Participants performed sinusoidal movements with visual feedback and judged if it represented their or another’s movements (i.e., self-other judgment). The results indicated that the patient who had worse upper limb sensorimotor deficits and lesser paretic upper limb activity compared with the other patient made more misattributions and showed a lower correlation between prediction errors and self-other judgments. This finding suggests that post-stroke sensorimotor deficits can impair the relationship between prediction error and self-other attribution, supporting the hypothesis that patients with such deficits can have altered strategies for the registration of agency. Full article

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