Alessandro D'Ausilio

TL;DR: A point of view is presented in which the human sensorimotor system is characterized by a high noise level and a high learning rate at the synaptic level, and it is argued that many heuristics of human skill learning, including the need for a prolonged period of warm-up in experts, follow from these assumptions.

TL;DR: It is concluded that motor recruitment in speech perception can be a natural product of discriminating speech in a normally variable and unpredictable environment, not merely related to task difficulty.

TL;DR: Empirical evidence points to a weaker separation between sensory and motor functions, showing that the motor system plays an important role also in perception, and confirms that the classical sensory versus motor separation has to be abandoned.

TL;DR: A new data-driven analysis approach that applies both independent components analysis and the Granger causality to the analysis of fMRI study of listening to high-frequency trisyllabic words, non-words and reversed words, which seems promising for the detection of cognitive causal relationships in neuroimaging data.

TL;DR: Results show that passive listening to speech sounds evokes a pattern of motor synergies mirroring those occurring during speech production, which were more evident in subjects showing good performances in discriminating speech in noise demonstrating a role of the speech-related mirror system in feed-forward processing the speaker's ongoing motor plan.