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Charalambos Papaxanthis

Charalambos Papaxanthis

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Neuroscience

D-Index
49
Citations
7254
World Ranking
6051
National Ranking
270

Overview

Charalambos Papaxanthis is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology, with a strong focus on motor control and adaptation as well as cognitive neuroscience.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "A cross-species neural integration of gravity for motor optimization," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Acquisition and consolidation processes following motor imagery practice," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Motor imagery and action observation following immobilization-induced hypoactivity: A narrative review," 2021, Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
  • "Actual and Imagined Movements Reveal a Dual Role of the Insular Cortex for Motor Control," 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Unravelling the Modulation of Intracortical Inhibition During Motor Imagery: An Adaptive Threshold-Hunting Study," 2020, Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated extensively include:

  • Jérémie Gaveau
  • Florent Lebon
  • William H. DuPont
  • Célia Ruffino
  • Carol Madden-Lombardi

The publication venues where Charalambos Papaxanthis frequently contributes are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Neuroscience
  • iScience
  • Peer community in neuroscience.

Their main fields of study are:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these fields, their work addresses subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Neurology

Key research topics covered by Charalambos Papaxanthis include:

  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Best Publications

  • Improvement and generalization of arm motor performance through motor imagery practice.

    R. Gentili;C. Papaxanthis;T. Pozzo

  • Neural plasticity during motor learning with motor imagery practice: Review and perspectives.

    Célia Ruffino;Charalambos Papaxanthis;Florent Lebon

  • Motor Learning Without Doing: Trial-by-Trial Improvement in Motor Performance During Mental Training

    Rodolphe J Gentili;Rodolphe J Gentili;Rodolphe J Gentili;Cheol E Han;Nicolas Schweighofer;Charalambos Papaxanthis;Charalambos Papaxanthis

  • Psychomotor Retardation in Depression: A Systematic Review of Diagnostic, Pathophysiologic, and Therapeutic Implications

    Djamila Bennabi;Pierre Vandel;Charalambos Papaxanthis;Thierry Pozzo;Thierry Pozzo

  • Imagined and actual arm movements have similar durations when performed under different conditions of direction and mass

    Charalambos Papaxanthis;Marco Schieppati;Rodolphe Gentili;Thierry Pozzo

  • The Inactivation Principle: Mathematical Solutions Minimizing the Absolute Work and Biological Implications for the Planning of Arm Movements

    Bastien Berret;Christian Darlot;Frédéric Jean;Thierry Pozzo

  • Does order and timing in performance of imagined and actual movements affect the motor imagery process? The duration of walking and writing task

    Charalambos Papaxanthis;Thierry Pozzo;Xanthi Skoura;Marco Schieppati

  • Inertial properties of the arm are accurately predicted during motor imagery.

    Rodolphe Gentili;Violaine Cahouet;Yves Ballay;Charalambos Papaxanthis

  • Motor planning of arm movements is direction-dependent in the gravity field.

    R. Gentili;V. Cahouet;C. Papaxanthis

  • Trajectories of arm pointing movements on the sagittal plane vary with both direction and speed

    Charalambos Papaxanthis;Thierry Pozzo;Marco Schieppati

  • Mentally represented motor actions in normal aging. I. Age effects on the temporal features of overt and covert execution of actions.

    Xanthi Skoura;Charalambos Papaxanthis;Annie Vinter;Thierry Pozzo

  • Kinematic and dynamic processes for the control of pointing movements in humans revealed by short-term exposure to microgravity.

    C. Papaxanthis;T. Pozzo;J. McIntyre

  • Coordinated modulation of locomotor muscle synergies constructs straight-ahead and curvilinear walking in humans.

    Grégoire Courtine;Charalambos Papaxanthis;Marco Schieppati

  • Motor cortical plasticity induced by motor learning through mental practice.

    Laura Avanzino;Nicolas Gueugneau;Ambra Bisio;Piero Ruggeri

  • Aging affects the mental rotation of left and right hands.

    Arnaud Saimpont;Thierry Pozzo;Thierry Pozzo;Charalambos Papaxanthis

  • Temporal features of imagined locomotion in normal aging.

    Pascaline Personnier;Alexandre Kubicki;Alexandre Kubicki;Davy Laroche;Charalambos Papaxanthis;Charalambos Papaxanthis

  • Comparison of motor strategies in sit-to-stand and back-to-sit motions between healthy and Alzheimer's disease elderly subjects.

    P. Manckoundia;F. Mourey;P. Pfitzenmeyer;C. Papaxanthis

  • Hand trajectories of vertical arm movements in one-G and zero-G environments Evidence for a central representation of gravitational force

    C. Papaxanthis;T. Pozzo;K. E. Popov;J. McIntyre

  • The sensorimotor and cognitive integration of gravity

    Thierry Pozzo;Charalambos Papaxanthis;Paul Stapley;Alain Berthoz

  • Effects of movement direction upon kinematic characteristics of vertical arm pointing movements in man

    Charalambos Papaxanthis;Thierry Pozzo;Paul Stapley

  • Motor Learning without Doing: Trial-by-Trial Improvement in Motor

    Rodolphe Gentili;Cheol E Han;Nicolas Schweighofer;Charalambos Papaxanthis

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Pozzo
Thierry Pozzo Italian Institute of Technology
Luciano Fadiga
Luciano Fadiga Italian Institute of Technology
Marco Bove
Marco Bove University of Genoa
Aymeric Guillot
Aymeric Guillot Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Richard B. Ivry
Richard B. Ivry University of California, Berkeley
Dora E. Angelaki
Dora E. Angelaki New York University
Grégoire Courtine
Grégoire Courtine École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Laura Avanzino
Laura Avanzino University of Genoa
Christian Collet
Christian Collet Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Stefan Schaal
Stefan Schaal Google (United States)

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