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Christian Collet is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Their work predominantly focuses on motor control and adaptation, sport psychology and performance, as well as action observation and synchronization. The interdisciplinary nature of their research is further reflected in involvement with topics such as transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, anatomy and medical technology, surgical simulation and training, and stroke rehabilitation and recovery.

Their recent scholarly publications illustrate the breadth of their research interests and collaborations. Selected recent papers include:

  • The effects of body position and actual execution on motor imagery of locomotor tasks in people with a lower-limb amputation, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Effect of motor imagery and actual practice on learning professional medical skills, 2021, BMC Medical Education
  • Acute stress affects implicit but not explicit motor imagery: A pilot study, 2020, International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Anodal tDCS does not enhance the learning of the sequential finger-tapping task by motor imagery practice in healthy older adults, 2022, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Inter-Task Transfer of Prism Adaptation through Motor Imagery, 2023, Brain Sciences

Collaborations with frequent co-authors have played a significant role in their research output. These include:

  • Franck Di Rienzo
  • Aymeric Guillot
  • Arnaud Saimpont
  • Nady Hoyek
  • Camille Muller

Their publications appear in various scientific journals, notably:

  • Anatomical Sciences Education
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology

Christian Collet is also the author of academic books, including a publication in 2024 titled Licence STAPS: anatomie, physiologie, biomécanique, neurosciences, entraînement, published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Their research spans multiple main fields and subfields:

  • Main fields of study: Neuroscience, Medicine, Psychology
  • Subfields of study: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Neurology, Social Psychology, Biomedical Engineering

Best Publications

  • Brain activity during visual versus kinesthetic imagery: an fMRI study.

    Aymeric Guillot;Christian Collet;Vo An Nguyen;Francine Malouin;Francine Malouin

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of visually evoked sexual arousal in human males.

    S Stoléru;M C Grégoire;D Gérard;J Decety

  • Autonomic nervous system response patterns specificity to basic emotions

    Christian Collet;Evelyne Vernet-Maury;Georges Delhomme;Andre Dittmar

  • Functional neuroanatomical networks associated with expertise in motor imagery.

    Aymeric Guillot;Christian Collet;Vo An Nguyen;Francine Malouin;Francine Malouin

  • Construction of the Motor Imagery Integrative Model in Sport: a review and theoretical investigation of motor imagery use

    Aymeric Guillot;Christian Collet

  • Duration of Mentally Simulated Movement: A Review

    A Guillot;C Collet

  • Contribution from neurophysiological and psychological methods to the study of motor imagery.

    Aymeric Guillot;Christian Collet

  • Multiple roles of motor imagery during action observation

    Stefan Vogt;Franck Di Rienzo;Christian Collet;Allan Collins

  • Imagining is not doing but involves specific motor commands: a review of experimental data related to motor inhibition

    Aymeric Guillot;Aymeric Guillot;Frank Di Rienzo;Tadhg E. MacIntyre;Aidan P. Moran

  • Re‐imagining motor imagery: Building bridges between cognitive neuroscience and sport psychology

    Aidan Moran;Aymeric Guillot;Tadhg MacIntyre;Christian Collet

  • Relationship Between Spatial Abilities, Mental Rotation and Functional Anatomy Learning

    Aymeric Guillot;Stéphane Champely;Christophe Batier;Patrice Thiriet

  • Muscular responses during motor imagery as a function of muscle contraction types.

    A Guillot;F Lebon;David Rouffet;S Champely

  • Measuring Motor Imagery Using Psychometric, Behavioral, and Psychophysiological Tools

    Christian Collet;Aymeric Guillot;Florent Lebon;Tadhg MacIntyre

  • Benefits of motor imagery training on muscle strength.

    Florent Lebon;Christian Collet;Aymeric Guillot

  • Phoning while driving I: a review of epidemiological, psychological, behavioural and physiological studies

    C Collet;A Guillot;C Petit

  • The neurophysiological foundations of mental and motor imagery

    Aymeric Guillot;Christian Collet

  • Imagery quality estimated by autonomic response is correlated to sporting performance enhancement.

    R. Roure;C. Collet;C. Deschaumes-Molinaro;G. Delhomme

  • Effectiveness of three-dimensional digital animation in teaching human anatomy in an authentic classroom context.

    Nady Hoyek;Christian Collet;Franck Di Rienzo;Mickael De Almeida

  • Understanding the timing of motor imagery: recent findings and future directions

    Aymeric Guillot;Nady Hoyek;Magali Louis;Christian Collet

  • Enhancement of mental rotation abilities and its effect on anatomy learning.

    Nady Hoyek;Christian Collet;Olivier Rastello;Patrick Fargier

Frequent Co-Authors

Aymeric Guillot
Aymeric Guillot Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Gilles Rode
Gilles Rode Hospices Civils de Lyon
Aidan Moran
Aidan Moran University College Dublin
Julien Doyon
Julien Doyon Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Yves Rossetti
Yves Rossetti Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
Eric R. Igou
Eric R. Igou University of Limerick
Philip L. Jackson
Philip L. Jackson Université Laval
Charalambos Papaxanthis
Charalambos Papaxanthis Grenoble Alpes University
Jessica Bramham
Jessica Bramham University College Dublin
Christopher R. Madan
Christopher R. Madan University of Nottingham

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