Action planning

Being able to plan and select appropriate behavior to estimate the effects of an action is likely to have, is central to acting intentionally. Consequently, the establishment of so-called action-effect bindings has been deemed fundamental for enabling goal-directed behavior. Yet, the neurophysiological foundations of this ability are still largely enigmatic. In this electrophysiological study with N=31 healthy individuals, we focused on theta band activity. We examined how information between functional neuroanatomical structures is exchanged to enable action-effect response specification proc

…of knowledge to produce plans of action. This view leads to a decomposition of brain functions into putative processes such as object recognition, working memory, decision-making, action planning, etc., inspiring the search for the neural correlates of these processes. However, neurophysiological data do not support many of the predictions of these classic subdivisions. Instead, there is divergence and broad distribution of functions that should be unifie

…multisensory integration and action planning. For example, this allows us to follow and interact with the precise timing of speech and sports. Here we investigate how visual event timing is represented and transformed across the brain’s hierarchy: from sensory processing areas, through multisensory integration areas, to frontal action planning areas. We hypothesized that the dynamics of neural responses to sensory events in sensory processing areas allows derivation of event timing representati