Thanks to the EU-funded project BraIn Action, at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento I have used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Multivoxel Pattern Analysis (MVPA) to investigate the role of the Early Visual Cortex (EVC) in action planning, even when vision is not available. The results of these projects are consistently showing that the activity pattern in the EVC can be used to predict action intention.

Here are more details about the individual projects, results and publications.