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2011

  1. Craighero L, Leo I, Umiltà C, Simion F.
    Newborns' preference for goal-directed actions
    Cognition. 2011 Mar 7 [PDF]

  2. Ansaldo A, Castagnola E, Maggiolini E, Fadiga L, Ricci D.
    Superior electrochemical performance of carbon nanotubes directly grown on sharp microelectrodes
    ACS Nano. 2011 Mar 22;5(3):2206-14. Epub 2011 Feb 22

  3. Tia B, Saimpont A, Paizis C, Mourey F, Fadiga L, Pozzo T.
    Does observation of postural imbalance induce a postural reaction?
    PLoS One. 2011 Mar 15;6(3):e17799

  4. D'Ausilio A, Bufalari I, Salmas P, Busan P, Fadiga L.
    Vocal pitch discrimination in the motor system
    Brain Lang. 2011 Mar 30

  5. Censolo R, Craighero L, Ponti G, Rizzo L, Canto R, Fadiga L.
    Electromyographic activity of hand muscles in a motor coordination game: effect of incentive scheme and its relation with social capital
    PLoS One. 2011 Mar 25;6(3):e17372 [PDF]

  6. Senot P, D'Ausilio A, Franca M, Caselli L, Craighero L, Fadiga L.
    Effect of weight-related labels on corticospinal excitability during observation of grasping: a TMS study
    Exp Brain Res. 2011 May;211(1):161-7. Epub 2011 Mar 29 [PDF]

  7. D'Ausilio A, Bufalari I, Salmas P, Fadiga L.
    The role of the motor system in discriminating normal and degraded speech sounds
    ELSERVIER (2011), Cortex doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2011.05.017 [PDF]

  8. Clerget E, Poncin W, Fadiga L, Olivier E.
    Role of Broca's Area in Implicit Motor Skill Learning: Evidence from Continuous Theta-burst Magnetic Stimulation
    J Neurosci. 2011 24:1, pp. 80–92 [PDF]

  9. Castellini C, Badino L, Metta G, Sandini G, Tavella M, Grimaldi M, Fadiga L.
    The use of phonetic motor invariants can improve automatic phoneme discrimination
    PLoS One. 2011;6(9):e24055 [PDF]

  10. Baranauskas G, Maggiolini E, Castagnola E, Ansaldo A, Mazzoni A, Angotzi GN, Vato A, Ricci D, Panzeri S, Fadiga L.
    Carbon nanotube composite coating of neural microelectrodes preferentially improves the multiunit signal-to-noise ratio
    J Neural Eng. 2011 Nov 8;8(6):066013 [PDF]

  11. Skrap M, Mondani M, Tomasino B, Weis L, Budai R, Pauletto G, Eleopra R, Fadiga L, Ius T.
    Surgery of insular non-enhancing Gliomas: volumetric analysis of tumoral resection, clinical outcome and survival in a consecutive series of 66 cases
    Neurosurgery 2011 Nov 3 [PDF]

2010

  1. Giacomo Rizzolatti and Laila Craighero
    Premotor theory of attention
    Scholarpedia; 5(1):6311 2010

  2. Kotz SA, D'Ausilio A, Raettig T, Begliomini C, Craighero L, Fabbri-Destro M, Zingales C, Haggard P, Fadiga L.
    Lexicality drives audio-motor transformations in Broca's area
    Brain Lang; Jan;112(1):3-11. 2010 [PDF]

  3. Alaerts K, Senot P, Swinnen SP, Craighero L, Wenderoth N, Fadiga L.
    Force requirements of observed object lifting are encoded by the observer's motor system: a TMS study
    Eur J Neurosci. 2010 Mar;31(6):1144-53

  4. Pulvermüller F, Fadiga L.
    Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language
    Nat Rev Neurosci. 2010 May;11(5):351-60. Epub 2010 Apr 9. Review

  5. Mussa-Ivaldi FA, Alford ST, Chiappalone M, Fadiga L, Karniel A, Kositsky M, Maggiolini E, Panzeri S, Sanguineti V, Semprini M, Vato A.
    New Perspectives on the Dialogue between Brains and Machines
    Front Neurosci. 2010 Apr 15;4:44

  6. Metta G, Natale L, Nori F, Sandini G, Vernon D, Fadiga L, von Hofsten C, Rosander K, Lopes M, Santos-Victor J, Bernardino A, Montesano L.
    The iCub humanoid robot: an open-systems platform for research in cognitive development
    Neural Netw. 2010 Oct-Nov;23(8-9):1125-34. Epub 2010 Sep 22. Review

  7. Bisio A, Stucchi N, Jacono M, Fadiga L, Pozzo T.
    Automatic versus voluntary motor imitation: effect of visual context and stimulus velocity
    PLoS One. 2010 Oct 20;5(10):e13506

  8. Bonfanti A, Ceravolo M, Zambra G, Gusmeroli R, Spinelli AS, Lacaita AL, Angotzi GN, Baranauskas G, Fadiga L.
    A multi-channel low-power system-on-chip for single-unit recording and narrowband wireless transmission of neural signal
    Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2010;2010:1555-60

2009

  1. Fazio P, Cantagallo A, Craighero L, D'Ausilio A, Roy AC, Pozzo T, Calzolari F, Granieri E, Fadiga L.
    Encoding of human action in Broca's area
    Brain, 2009; 132(Pt 7):1980-8 2009 [PDF]

  2. D'Ausilio A, Pulvermüller F, Salmas P, Bufalari I, Begliomini C, Fadiga L.
    The motor somatotopy of speech perception
    Curr Biol, 2009; 19(5):381-5. 2009 [PDF]

  3. Fadiga L., Craighero L., D’Ausilio A.
    Broca’s Area in language and music: the supramodal syntax hypothesis
    Ann NY Acad Sci, 2009; 1169: 448–458. 2009 [PDF]

  4. Ricciardi E, Bonino D, Sani L, Vecchi T, Guazzelli M, Haxby JV, Fadiga L, Pietrini P.
    Do we really need vision? How blind people "see" the actions of others
    J Neurosci; Aug 5;29(31):9719-24, 2009 [PDF]

  5. Clerget E, Winderickx A, Fadiga L, Olivier E.
    Role of Broca's area in encoding sequential human actions: a virtual lesion study
    Neuroreport; 28;20(16):1496-9, 2009 [PDF]

2008

  1. Rossi S., De Capua A., Pasqualetti P., Ulivelli M., Fadiga L., Falzarano V., Bartalini S., Passero S., Nuti D., Rossini P.M.
    Distinct Olfactory Cross-Modal Effects on the Human Motor System
    PLoS ONE - February 2008 - Volume 3 - Issue 2 - e1702 2008 [PDF]

  2. Craighero L., Bonetti F., Massarenti L., Canto R., Fabbri Destro M., Fadiga L.
    Temporal prediction of touch instant during observation of human and robot grasping
    Brain Research Bulletin, 75 (2008) 770–774. 2008 [PDF]

  3. E. de Lussanet M., Fadiga L., Michels L., Seitz J., Kleiser R., Lappe M.
    Interaction of visual hemifield and body view in biological motion perception
    European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 27, pp. 514–522, 2008 [PDF]

  4. Rochat M., Serra E., Fadiga L., Gallese V.
    The Evolution of Social Cognition: Goal Familiarity Shapes Monkeys’ Action Understanding
    Current Biology 18, 227–232, February 12, 2008 [PDF]

  5. Roy A., Craighero L., Fabbri Destro M., Fadiga L.
    Phonological and lexical motor facilitation during speech listening: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study
    Journal of Physiology - Paris 102 (2008) 101–105, 2008 [PDF]

  6. Keysers C, Fadiga L.
    The mirror neuron system: new frontiers
    Soc Neurosci, 2008; 3(3-4):193-8, 2008

2007

  1. Fadiga L., Craighero L.
    Cues on the origin of language. From electrophysiological data on mirror neurons and motor representations
    In S. Bråten (Ed.), On Being Moved: From mirror neurons to empathy. Amsterdam, John Benjamins. 2007 [PDF]

  2. Porro C.A., Martinig M., Facchin P., Maieron M., Jones A.K.P., Fadiga L.
    Parietal cortex involvement in the localization of tactile and noxious mechanical stimuli: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study
    Behavioural Brain Research, 178, 183-189. 2007 [PDF]

  3. Craighero L., Metta G., Sandini G, Fadiga L.
    The mirror-neurons system: data and models
    Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 164, Chapter 3. 2007 [PDF]

  4. Schütz-Bosbach S., Haggard P., Fadiga L., Craighero L.
    Motor cognition: TMS studies of action generation
    Wasserman - June 2007 - chapter 30 - Page 463 - 2007 [PDF]


  5. Fadiga L.
    Functional magnetic resonance imaging: Measuring versus estimating
    NeuroImage 37 2007 1042–1044
    . 2007 [PDF]

  6. Olivier E., Davare1 M., Andres M., Fadiga L.
    Precision grasping in humans: from motor control to cognition
    ELSERVIER - Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2007, 17:644–648. 2007
    [PDF]

  7. Porro C.A., Facchin P., Fusi S., Dri G., Fadiga L.
    Enhancement of force after action observation. Behavioral and  neurophysiological studies
    ELSERVIER - Neuropsychologia 45 (2007) 3114–3121 2007 [PDF]


  8. Rizzolatti G. e Craighero L.
    Language and mirror neurons
    In G. Gaskell (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2007 [PDF]

2006

  1. Fadiga L., Craighero L., Fabbri Destro M., Finos L., Cotillon-Williams N., Smith A.T., Castiello U.
    Language in Shadow
    Social Neuroscience, 1, 77-89. 2006 [PDF]
     

  2. Metta G., Sandini G., Natale L., Craighero L., Fadiga L.
    Understanding mirror neurons: a bio-robotic approach
    Interaction Studies, 7(2), 197-232. 2006 [PDF]
     

  3. Fadiga L., Craighero L.
    Hand actions and speech representation in Broca's Area
    Cortex, 42, 486-490. 2006 [PDF]

  4. Fadiga L., Craighero L.
    Cues on the origin of language



  5. Fadiga L., Roy A. C., Fazio P., Craighero L.
    From hand actions to speech: evidence and speculations
    ATTENTION AND PERFORMANCE: Sensorimotor Foundations of Higher Cognition. Haggard P., Rossetti Y., & Kawato M. (Eds.) 2006
    [PDF]

2005

  1. Fadiga L., Craighero L., Olivier E.
    Human motor cortex excitability during the perception of others’ action
    Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14, 331–333. 2005 [PDF]

2004

  1. Fadiga L., Craighero L., Dri G., Facchin P., Fabbri Destro M., Porro C.A.
    Corticospinal excitability during painful self-stimulation in humans: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study
    Neuroscience Letter, 361, 250–253. 2004 [PDF]
     

  2. Rizzolati G., Craighero L.
    The Mirror-Neuron System
    Annual Review of Neuroscience, 27, 169–192. 2004 [PDF]
     

  3. Craighero L., Fadiga L., Nascimben M.
    Eye position affects orienting of visuospatial attention
    Current Biology, 14, 331–333. 2004 [PDF]
     

  4. Fadiga L., Craighero L.
    Electrophysiology of action representation
    Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 21(3), 157-169. 2004 [PDF]
     

  5. Vargas C.D., Olivier E., Craighero L., Fadiga L., Duhamel J.R., Sirigu A.
    The influence of hand posture on corticospinal excitability during motor imagery: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study
    Cerebral Cortex, 14(11), 1200-1206. 2004 [PDF]

2003

  1. Vandermeeren Y., Bastings E., Fadiga L., Olivier E.
    Long-latency motor evoked potentials in congenital hemiplegia
    Clinical Neurophysiology, 114(10), 1808-1818. 2003 [PDF]
     

  2. Fadiga L., Craighero L.
    New insights on sensorimotor integration: From hand action to speech perception
    Brain and Cognition, 53, 514-524. 2003 [PDF]

2002

  1. Craighero L., Bello A., Fadiga L., Rizzolatti G.
    Hand action preparation influences the responses to hand pictures
    Neuropsychologia, 40(5), 492-502. 2002 [PDF]
     

  2. Fadiga L., Craighero L., Buccino G., Rizzolatti G.
    Speech listening specifically modulates the excitability of tongue muscles: a TMS study
    European Journal of Neuroscience, 15(2), 399-402. 2002 [PDF]

2001

  1. Baldissera F., Cavallari P., Craighero L., Fadiga L.
    Modulation of spinal excitability during observation of hand actions in humans
    European Journal of Neuroscience, 13, 190-194. 2001 [PDF]
     

  2. Buccino G., Binkofski F., Fink G.R., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Gallese V., Seitz R.J., Zilles K., Rizzolatti G., Freund H.J.
    Action observation activates premotor and parietal areas in a somatotopic manner: an fMRI study
    European Journal of Neuroscience, 13, 400-404. 2001 [PDF]
     

  3. Fogassi L., Gallese V., Buccino G., Craighero L., Fadiga L., Rizzolatti G.
    Cortical mechanisms for the visual guidance of hand grasping movements in the monkey: a reversible inactivation study
    Brain, 124, 571-586. 2001 [PDF]
     

  4. Agus M., Bettio F., Gobbetti E., Fadiga L.
    An integrated environment for steroscopic acquisition, off-line 3D elaboration, and visual presentation of biological actions
    In J. D. Westwood (Ed.), Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2001. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [PDF]
     

  5. Umiltà M.A., Kohler E., Gallese V., Fogassi L., Fadiga L., Keysers C., Rizzolatti G.
    I know what you are doing: a neurophysiological study
    Neuron, 2001, 31(1):155-65. 2001 [PDF]
     

  6. Craighero L., Carta A., Fadiga L.
    Peripheral oculomotor palsy affects orienting of visuospatial attention
    Neuroreport, 12(15), 3283-3286. 2001 [PDF]

2000

  1. Fadiga L., Craighero L., Fogassi L., Gallese V.
    Représentation interne de l’action: nouvelles perspectives.
    Psychologie Francaise, 45-4. 2000

1999

  1. Fadiga L., Buccino G., Craighero L., Fogassi L., Gallese V., Pavesi G.
    Corticospinal excitability is specifically modulated by motor imagery: a magnetic stimulation study
    Neuropsychologia, 37, 147-158. 1999 [PDF]
     

  2. Rizzolatti G., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Gallese V.
    Resonance behaviors and mirror neurons
    Archivio Italiano di Biologia, 137, 83-99. 1999
     

  3. Craighero L., Fadiga L., Rizzolatti G., Umiltà C.
    Action for perception: a motor-visual attentional effect
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1673-1692. 1999 [PDF]
     

  4. Gallese V., Craighero L., Fadiga L., Fogassi L.
    Perception through action
    Psiche - An interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness. 1999 [HTML] [PDF]
     

  5. Binkofski F., Buccino G., Fink G.R., Schnitzler A., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Gallese V., Seitz R.J., Zilles K., Rizzolatti G., Freund HJ.
    Topographic segregation for movement recognition in man. An fMRI-study
    Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25, 753.8. 1999

1998

  1. Craighero L., Fadiga L., Rizzolatti G., Umiltà C.A.
    Visuomotor Priming
    Visual Cognition, 5, 109-125. 1998 [PDF]
     

  2. Rizzolatti G., Fadiga L.
    Grasping objects and grasping meanings: the dual role of monkey rostroventral premotor cortex (area F5)
    Novartis Foundation Symposium, 218, 81-103. 1998
     

  3. Rizzolatti G., Craighero L.
    Spatial attention: Mechanisms and theories
    In Sabourin et al. (Ed.), Advances in Psychological Science: Biological and Cognitive Aspects. Psychology Press, Hove, UK. 1998
     

  4. Rizzolatti G., Craighero L.
    De l’attention spatiale à l’attention vers des objets: une extension de la théorie prémotrice de l’attention
    Revue de Neuropsychologie, 8, 155-174. 1998

1997

  1. Sheliga B.M, Craighero L., Riggio L., Rizzolatti G.
    Effects of spatial attention on directional manual and ocular responses
    Experimental Brain Research, 114, 339-351. 1997 [PDF]
     

  2. Murata A., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Gallese V., Raos V., Rizzolatti G.
    Object representation in the ventral premotor cortex (area F5) of the monkey
    Journal of Neurophysiology, 78, 2226-2230. 1997 [PDF]
     

  3. Fadiga L., Gallese V.
    Action representation and language in the brain
    Theoretical Linguistics, 23, 267-280. 1997
     

  4. Rizzolatti G., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Gallese V.
    The space around us
    Science, 277, 190-191. 1997 [HTML]
     

  5. Gallese V., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Luppino G., Murata A.
    A parietal-frontal circuit for hand grasping movements in the monkey: evidence from reversible inactivation experiments.
    In P. Thier and H. O. Karnath (Eds.), Parietal lobe contributions to orientation in 3D-space. Exp. Brain Res. Suppl. Series. Springer Publ., Berlin-New York. 1997
     

  6. Grafton S.T., Fadiga L., Arbib M.A., Rizzolatti G.
    Premotor cortex activation during observation and naming of familiar tools
    NeuroImage, 6, 231-236. 1997 [PDF]

1996

  1. Rizzolatti G., Fadiga L., Gallese V., Fogassi L.
    Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions
    Cognitive Brain Research, 3, 131-141. 1996
     

  2. Gallese V., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Rizzolatti G.
    Action recognition in the premotor cortex
    Brain, 119, 593-609. 1996 [PDF]
     

  3. Fogassi L., Gallese V., Fadiga L., Luppino G., Matelli M., Rizzolatti G.
    Coding of peripersonal space in inferior premotor cortex (area F4)
    Journal of Neurophysiology, 76, 141-157. 1996
     

  4. Rizzolatti G., Fadiga L., Matelli M., Bettinardi V., Paulesu E., Perani D., Fazio F.
    Localization of grasp representations in human by PET: 1. Observation versus execution
    Experimental Brain Research, 111, 246-252. 1996
     

  5. Fogassi L., Gallese V., Fadiga L., Rizzolatti G.
    Space coding in inferior premotor cortex (area F4): Facts and speculations
    In F. Lacquaniti and P. Viviani (Eds.), Neural Bases of Motor Behaviour. NATO ASI Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht-Boston-London. 1996
     

  6. Grafton S.T., Arbib M.A., Fadiga L., Rizzolatti G.
    Localization of grasp representations in human by PET: 2. Observation versus imagination
    Experimental Brain Research, 112, 103-111. 1996 [PDF]
     

  7. Craighero L., Fadiga L., Umiltà C.A., Rizzolatti G.
    Evidence for visuomotor priming effect
    Neuroreport, 8, 347-349. 1996 [PDF]

1995

  1. Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Pavesi G., Rizzolatti G.
    Motor facilitation during action observation: a magnetic stimulation study
    Journal of Neurophysiology, 73(6), 2608-2611. 1995 [PDF]
     

  2. Sheliga B.M., Riggio L., Craighero L., Rizzolatti G.
    Spatial attention determined modifications in saccade trajectories
    NeuroReport, 6, 585-588. 1995

1992

  1. Fogassi L., Gallese V., di Pellegrino G., Fadiga L., Gentilucci M., Luppino G., Matelli M., Pedotti A., Rizzolatti G.
    Space coding by premotor cortex
    Experimental Brain Research, 89, 686-690. 1992 [PDF]
     

  2. di Pellegrino G., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Gallese V., Rizzolatti G.
    Understanding motor events: a neurophysiological study
    Experimental Brain Research, 91, 176-180. 1992 [PDF]