Research

CURRENT RESEARCH

Our current research focuses on understanding properties of the mirror neuron system and shared representations as it relates to stroke and neurorehabilitation, contextual effects on empathy, embodied cognition, social communication, language, and visual creativity.

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters

Liew, S.-L. & Aziz-Zadeh, L. (In press). The mirror neuron system, social control, and language. In: Handbook of Neurosociology. Editor: Franks, D. & Turner, J.T.

Liew, S.-L. & Aziz-Zadeh, L. (2011). The mirror neuron system and social cognition. In: From DNA to Social Cognition, First Edition. Editors: Ebstein, Shamay-Tsoory, & Chew.

Grafton, S.T., Aziz-Zadeh, L., Ivry, R.B. (2009) Relative hierarchies and the representation of action. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences IV. Ed: Gazzaniga, M. MIT Press, Cambridge, M.A: 641-655.

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Ivry R. (2008) Action representation and the mirror neuron system. In: Progress in Motor Control V: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Ed: Sternad, D. Springer,
New York, N.Y: 355-377.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Sobhani, M. and Bechara, A. (In press). A somatic marker perspective of immoral and corrupt behavior. Social Neuroscience.

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Sheng, T., Liew, S.-L., & Damasio, H. (2011). Understanding otherness: The neural basis of action understanding and empathy in a congenital amputee. Cerebral Cortex. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhr139

Liew, S.-L., & Aziz-Zadeh, L. (2011). The neuroscience of language in occupations: A review of findings from brain and behavioral sciences. Journal of Occupational Science, 18(2), 97-114.

Liew, S.-L., Ma, Y.,Han, S., & Aziz-Zadeh, L. (2011). Who's afraid of the boss: Cultural differences in social hierarchies modulate self-face recognition in Chinese and Americans. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16901. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016901

Landau, A., Aziz-Zadeh, L., & Ivry, R. (2010). The influence of language on perception: Listening to sentences about faces affects the perception of faces. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(45), 15254-15261.

Liew, S.-L., Han, S., & Aziz-Zadeh, L. (2010). Familiarity modulates mirror neuron and mentalizing regions during intention understanding. Human Brain Mapping. doi: 10.1002/hbm.21164

Sheng, T., Gheytanchi, A., & Aziz-Zadeh, L. (2010). Default network deactivations are correlated with psychopathic personality traits. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12611. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012611

Aziz-Zadeh L, Sheng T, Gheytanchi A (2010) Common premotor regions for the perception and production of prosody and correlations with empathy and prosodic ability. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8759. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008759

Garrison, K., Winstein, C., Aziz-Zadeh, L. (2010): The mirror neuron system: A neural substrate for methods in stroke rehabilitation. Neural Rehabilitation and Neural Repair.

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Kaplan, J.T., Iacoboni, M. (2008) Aha!: The neural correlates of verbal insight. Human Brain Mapping. 30(3): 908-16.

Kaplan, J.T., Aziz-Zadeh, L., Uddin, L., Iacoboni, M. (2008) The self across the senses: an fMRI study of self-face and self-voice recognition. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 3: 218-223.

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Damasio, A.R. (2008) Embodied semantics for actions: Findings from functional brain imaging. Journal of Physiology Paris. 102: 35-39.

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Fiebach, C., Naranayan, S., Feldman, J., Dodge, E., Ivry, R. (2008) Modulation of the FFA and PPA while listening to sentences. Social Neuroscience: 3(3-4): 229-38.

Kaplan, J., Aziz-Zadeh, L., Uddin, L., Iacoboni, M. (2008) The self across the senses: an fMRI study of self-face and self-voice recognition. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 3: 218-223.

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Wilson, S., Rizzolatti, G., Iacoboni, M. (2006) A comparison of premotor areas activated by action observation and action phrases. Current Biology. 16(18): 1818-23. [pdf | sup]

Gazzola V., Aziz-Zadeh L., Keysers C. (2006) Empathy and the somatotopic mirror system in humans. Current Biology. 16(18):1824-9. [pdf]

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Koski, L., Zaidel, E., Mazziotta, J., Iacoboni, M. (2006) Author response to "Mirror neurons and the lateralization of language". Journal of Neuroscience. 26(25): 6666-6667s.

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Koski, L., Zaidel, E., Mazziotta, J., Iacoboni, M. (2006) Lateralization of the human mirror neuron system. Journal of Neuroscience 26(11): 2964-2970. [pdf]

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Iacoboni, M., Zaidel, E. (2006) Hemispheric sensitivity to body stimuli in simple reaction time. Experimental Brain Research. 144: 127-131. [pdf]

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Cattaneo, L., Rochat, M., Rizzolatti, G. (2005) Covert speech arrest induced by rTMS over both motor and nonmotor left hemisphere frontal sites. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17(6):928-38. [pdf]

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Iacoboni, M., Zaidel, E., Wilson, S., Mazziotta, J. (2004) Lateralization in motor facilitation during hearing of action sounds. European Journal of Neuroscience 19(9):2609-2612. [pdf]

Aziz-Zadeh, L., Maeda, F., Zaidel, E., Mazziotta, J., Iacoboni, M. (2002) Lateralization in motor facilitation during action observation: A TMS study. Experimental Brain Research 144(1):127-31. [pdf]