Action-Oriented Cognition

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  • Sharott A, Grosse P, Kühn AA, Salih F, Engel AK, Kupsch A, Schneider G-H, Krauss JK, Brown P (2008) Is the synchronisation between pallidal and muscle activity in primary dystonia due to peripheral afference or a motor drive? Brain 131: 473-484. doi: 10.1093/brain/awm324
  • Sharott A, Moll CKE, Engler G, Denker M, Grün S, Engel AK (2009) Different subtypes of striatal neurons are selectively modulated by cortical oscillations. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 4571-4585. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5097-08.2009
  • Donner TH, Siegel M, Fries P, Engel AK (2009) Build-up of choice-predictive activity in human motor cortex during perceptual decision making. Current Biology 19: 1581-1585. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.066
  • Weiller D, Märtin R, Dähne S, Engel AK, König P (2010) Involving motor capabilities in the formation of sensory space representations. PLoS One 5: e10377. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010377
  • Weiller D, Läer L, Engel AK, König P (2010) Unsupervised learning of reflexive and action-based affordances to model adaptive navigational behavior. Frontiers in Neurorobotics 4: 2. doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2010.00002
  • Engel AK (2010) Directive minds: how dynamics shapes cognition. In: Stewart J, Gapenne O, Di Paolo E (eds) Enaction: towards a new paradigm for cognitive science. Cambridge, MIT Press: 219-243. doi: 10.7551/mitpress/8629.003.0009
  • Engel AK, Fries P (2010) Beta-band oscillations - signalling the status quo? Current Opinion in Neurobiology 20: 156-165. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2010.02.015
  • David N, Stenzel A, Schneider TR, Engel AK (2011) The feeling of agency: empirical indicators for a pre-reflective level of action awareness. Frontiers in Psychology 2: 149. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00149
  • Maye A, Engel AK (2011) A discrete computational model of sensorimotor contingencies for object perception and control of behavior. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2011: 3810-3815. doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979919
  • Engel AK, Maye A, Kurthen M, König P (2013) Where‘s the action? The pragmatic turn in cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17: 202-209. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.03.006
  • Maye A, Engel AK (2013) Extending sensorimotor contingency theory: prediction, planning and action generation. Adaptive Behavior 21: 423-436. doi: 10.1177/1059712313497975
  • Moll CK, Galindo-Leon E, Sharott A, Gulberti A, Buhmann C, Koeppen JA, Biermann M, Bäumer T, Zittel S, Westphal M, Gerloff C, Hamel W, Münchau A, Engel AK (2014) Asymmetric pallidal neuronal activity in patients with cervical dystonia. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 8: 15. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00015
  • Buhmann C, Maintz L, Hierling J, Vettorazzi E, Moll CKE, Engel AK, Gerloff C, Hamel W, Zangemeister WH (2014) Effect of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on driving in Parkinson's disease. Neurology 82: 32-40. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000438223.17976.fb
  • Gulberti A, Hamel W, Buhmann C, Boelmans K, Zittel S, Gerloff C, Westphal M, Engel AK, Schneider TR, Moll CKE (2014) Subthalamic deep brain stimulation surgery improves auditory sensory gating deficit in Parkinson´s disease. Clinical Neurophysiology 126: 565-574. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.06.046
  • Gulberti A, Moll CKE, Hamel W, Buhmann C, Boelmans K, Zittel S, Gerloff C, Westphal M, Schneider TR, Engel AK (2015) Predictive timing functions of cortical beta oscillations are impaired in Parkinson's disease and influenced by L-DOPA and deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus. Neuroimage Clinical 9: 436-449. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.09.013
  • Heed T, Buchholz VN, Engel AK, Röder B (2015) Tactile remapping: from coordinate transformation to integration in sensorimotor processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 19: 251-258. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.03.001
  • Schubert JTW, Buchholz VN, Föcker J, Engel AK, Röder B, Heed T (2015) Oscillatory activity reflects differential use of spatial reference frames by sighted and blind individuals in tactile attention. Neuroimage 117: 417-428. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.068
  • Fischer P, Ossandon JP, Keyser J, Gulberti A, Wilming N, Hamel W, Koeppen J, Buhmann C, Westphal M, Gerloff C, Moll CKE, Engel AK, König P (2016) STN-DBS reduces saccadic hypometria but not visuospatial bias in Parkinson’s disease patients. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 10: 85. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00085
  • Carl C, Hipp JF, König P, Engel AK (2016) Spectral signatures of saccade target selection. Brain Topography 29: 130-148. doi: 10.1007/s10548-015-0426-6
  • David N, Skoruppa S, Gulberti A, Schultz J*, Engel AK* (2016) The sense of agency is more sensitive to manipulations of outcome than movement-related feedback irrespective of sensory modality. PLoS One 11: e0161156. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161156
  • Maye A, Engel AK (2016) The sensorimotor account of sensory consciousness – implications for machine consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies 23: 177-202.
  • Hidding U, Gulberti A, Horn A, Buhmann C, Hamel W, Koeppen JA, Westphal M, Engel AK, Gerloff C, Weiss D, Moll CK, Pötter-Nerger M (2017) Impact of combined subthalamic nucleus and substantia nigra stimulation on neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson’s disease patients. Parkinson’s Disease 2017: 7306192. doi: 10.1155/2017/7306192
  • Buchholz VN, David N, Sengelmann M, Engel AK (2019) Belief of agency changes dynamics in sensorimotor networks. Scientific Reports 9: 1995. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-37912-w
  • Gulberti A, Schneider TR, Galindo-Leon EE, Heise M, Pino A, Westphal M, Hamel W, Buhmann C, Zittel S, Gerloff C, Pötter-Nerger M, Engel AK, Moll CKE (2024) Premotor cortical beta synchronization and the network neuromodulation of externally paced finger tapping in Parkinson’s disease. Neurobiology of Disease 197: 106529. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2024.106529
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