We connect mechanistic human neuroscience with clinical questions across four closely linked research programmes.
We study how the human brain represents action execution, observation and motor imagery, and how visual, haptic and motor information supports object interaction. This programme addresses the mirror neuron system, grasping, sensorimotor integration, motor representations and learning.
action observation · mirror neuron system · grasping · motor imageryWe investigate how cortical, subcortical and cerebellar regions communicate as distributed networks. Task-dependent and intrinsic interactions are examined through functional connectivity, gPPI, effective connectivity, DCM, connectomics and network neuroscience.
functional connectivity · gPPI · DCM · connectomicsWe examine neural reorganisation following neurological injury and test neuroscience-informed approaches to recovery. Our work includes stroke, cerebral palsy, Action Observation Treatment, virtual reality, intensive motor practice and brain plasticity.
stroke · cerebral palsy · rehabilitation · neuroplasticityWe investigate how conscious processing emerges from the integration of interoceptive, sensory and predictive signals. A central focus is how cerebellar–cortical networks anticipate errors, update internal models and guide behavioural correction, from bodily awareness to adaptive control.
consciousness · interoception · error prediction · cerebellar–cortical networksFunctional MRI, structural MRI, diffusion MRI and tractography
Task-based and resting-state connectivity, PPI / gPPI and DCM
Multivariate Pattern Analysis and Representational Similarity Analysis
Connectomics and network neuroscience
Behavioural and neuropsychological assessment
Neurorehabilitation studies and clinical trials