Most cited papers in Action Observation and Synchronization
What are the most cited papers in Action Observation and Synchronization?
The most cited paper in Action Observation and Synchronization is "Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?" (David Premack, Guy Woodruff, 1978), with 8,737 citations. Next come "THE MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM" (7,193) and "How do you feel — now? The anterior insula and human awareness" (6,829).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,614 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? David Premack, Guy Woodruff · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Dec 1978 | 8,737 |
| 2 | THE MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM Giacomo Rizzolatti, Laila Craighero · Annual Review of Neuroscience | 24 Jun 2004 | 7,193 |
| 3 | How do you feel — now? The anterior insula and human awareness A. D. Craig · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 19 Dec 2008 | 6,829 |
| 4 | The information capacity of the human motor system in controlling the amplitude of movement. Paul M. Fitts · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | 1992 | 6,325 |
| 5 | Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science Andy Clark · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 10 May 2013 | 6,131 |
| 6 | How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body Agnella Craig · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Aug 2002 | 6,100 |
| 7 | Grounded Cognition Lawrence W. Barsalou · Annual Review of Psychology | 17 Aug 2007 | 5,703 |
| 8 | Action recognition in the premotor cortex Vittorio Gallese, Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi et al. · Brain | 1996 | 4,988 |
| 9 | Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions Giacomo Rizzolatti, Luciano Fadiga, Vittorio Gallese et al. · Cognitive Brain Research | Mar 1996 | 4,883 |
| 10 | Six views of embodied cognition Margaret Mary Wilson · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Dec 2002 | 4,734 |
| 11 | Thirty Years and Counting: Finding Meaning in the N400 Component of the Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP) Marta Kutas, Kara D. Federmeier · Annual Review of Psychology | 2 Dec 2010 | 4,508 |
| 12 | Attention to Action Donald A. Norman, Tim Shallice | 1986 | 4,403 |
| 13 | Where Is the Semantic System? A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of 120 Functional Neuroimaging Studies Jeffrey R. Binder, Rutvik H. Desai, William W. Graves et al. · Cerebral Cortex | 27 Mar 2009 | 4,257 |
| 14 | Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition David M. Amodio, Chris Frith · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 21 Mar 2006 | 3,853 |
| 15 | Understanding motor events: a neurophysiological study Giuseppe di Pellegrino, Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi et al. · Experimental Brain Research | Oct 1992 | 3,553 |
| 16 | Theory of mind Chris Frith, Uta Frith · Current Biology | Sep 2005 | 3,489 |
| 17 | The Functional Architecture of Human Empathy Jean Decety, Philip L. Jackson · Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews | Jun 2004 | 3,386 |
| 18 | Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the understanding and imitation of action Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi, Vittorio Gallese · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Sep 2001 | 3,325 |
| 19 | On a confusion about a function of consciousness Ned Block · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Jun 1995 | 3,286 |
| 20 | Mirror neurons and the simulation theory of mind-reading Vittorio Gallese · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Dec 1998 | 3,221 |
| 21 | Optimal feedback control as a theory of motor coordination Emanuel Todorov, Michael I. Jordan · Nature Neuroscience | 28 Oct 2002 | 3,206 |
| 22 | Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again. Tim van Gelder, Andy Clark · The Philosophical Review | Oct 1998 | 3,149 |
| 23 | The Mirror Neuron System Luigi Cattaneo, Giacomo Rizzolatti · Archives of Neurology | May 2009 | 3,135 |
| 24 | The Theory of Event Coding (TEC): A framework for perception and action planning Bernhard Hommel, Jochen Müsseler, Gisa Aschersleben et al. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Oct 2001 | 3,122 |
| 25 | Philosophical conceptions of the self: implications for cognitive science Shaun Gallagher, Shaun Gallagher · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2000 | 2,948 |
| 26 | Concreteness, imagery, and meaningfulness values for 925 nouns. Allan Paivio, John C. Yuille, Stephen A. Madigan · Journal of Experimental Psychology | 1968 | 2,857 |
| 27 | The somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortex António R. Damásio · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 29 Oct 1996 | 2,852 |
| 28 | Language within our grasp Giacomo Rizzolatti, Michael A. Arbib · Trends in Neurosciences | May 1998 | 2,841 |
| 29 | Self-referential processing in our brain—A meta-analysis of imaging studies on the self Georg Northoff, Alexander Heinzel, Moritz de Greck et al. · NeuroImage | 8 Feb 2006 | 2,841 |
| 30 | Where do you know what you know? The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain Karalyn E. Patterson, Peter J. Nestor, Timothy T. Rogers · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 20 Nov 2007 | 2,828 |
| 31 | Internal models for motor control and trajectory planning Mitsuo Kawato · Current Opinion in Neurobiology | Dec 1999 | 2,754 |
| 32 | The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge Vittorio Gallese, George P. Lakoff · Cognitive Neuropsychology | 11 Jan 2005 | 2,747 |
| 33 | Cortical Mechanisms of Human Imitation Marco Iacoboni, Roger P. Woods, Marcel Braß et al. · Science | 24 Dec 1999 | 2,706 |
| 34 | Adaptive representation of dynamics during learning of a motor task Reza Shadmehr, FA Mussa-Ivaldi · Journal of Neuroscience | May 1994 | 2,706 |
| 35 | Place illusion and plausibility can lead to realistic behaviour in immersive virtual environments Mel Slater · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 2 Nov 2009 | 2,664 |
| 36 | Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body AD Craig · Current Opinion in Neurobiology | 16 Jul 2003 | 2,631 |
| 37 | The representing brain: Neural correlates of motor intention and imagery Marc Jeannerod · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Jun 1994 | 2,593 |
| 38 | Neural Simulation of Action: A Unifying Mechanism for Motor Cognition Marc Jeannerod · NeuroImage | Jul 2001 | 2,582 |
| 39 | On the ability to inhibit thought and action: A theory of an act of control. Gordon D. Logan, William B. Cowan · Psychological Review | Jul 1984 | 2,559 |
| 40 | TIME OF CONSCIOUS INTENTION TO ACT IN RELATION TO ONSET OF CEREBRAL ACTIVITY (READINESS-POTENTIAL) Benjamin Libet, Curtis A. Gleason, Elwood W. Wright et al. · Brain | 1983 | 2,515 |
| 41 | The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia scale—II. Convergent, discriminant, and concurrent validity Robert Michael Bagby, Graeme J. Taylor, James D. A. Parker · Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 1994 | 2,470 |
| 42 | The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review Kristen A. Lindquist, Tor Dessart Wager, Hedy Kober et al. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 23 May 2012 | 2,376 |
| 43 | From motivation to action: Functional interface between the limbic system and the motor system Gordon J. Mogenson, Douglas Lamar Jones, Chi Yiu Yim · Progress in Neurobiology | 1980 | 2,371 |
| 44 | Grounding language in action Arthur M. Glenberg, Michael P. Kaschak · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Sep 2002 | 2,370 |
| 45 | A theoretical model of phase transitions in human hand movements Hermann Haken, J. A. Scott Kelso, Helmut Bunz · Biological Cybernetics | Feb 1985 | 2,366 |
| 46 | Motor facilitation during action observation: a magnetic stimulation study Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi, Giovanni Pavesi et al. · Journal of Neurophysiology | Jun 1995 | 2,337 |
| 47 | Forward Models for Physiological Motor Control R. Chris Miall, Daniel M. Wolpert · Neural Networks | Nov 1996 | 2,321 |
| 48 | The Experience of Presence: Factor Analytic Insights Thomas W. Schubert, Frank Friedmann, Holger T. Regenbrecht · PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality | Jun 2001 | 2,293 |
| 49 | Action observation activates premotor and parietal areas in a somatotopic manner: an fMRI study Giovanni Buccino, Ferdinand Binkofski, Gereon R. Fink et al. · European Journal of Neuroscience | 2001 | 2,264 |
| 50 | A unifying view of the basis of social cognition Vittorio Gallese, Christian Keysers, Giacomo Rizzolatti · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 5 Aug 2004 | 2,246 |
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