<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "A topographical organization for action representation in the human brain"^^ . "How the human brain represents distinct motor features into a unique finalized action still remains undefined. Previous models proposed the distinct features of a motor act to be hierarchically organized in separated, but functionally interconnected, cortical areas. Here, we hypothesized that distinct patterns across a wide expanse of cortex may actually subserve a topographically organized coding of different categories of actions that represents, at a higher cognitive level and independently from the distinct motor features, the action and its final aim as a whole. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging and pattern classification approaches on the neural responses of 14 right-handed individuals passively watching short movies of hand-performed tool-mediated, transitive, and meaningful intransitive actions, we were able to discriminate with a high accuracy and characterize the category-specific response patterns. Actions are distinctively coded in distributed and overlapping neural responses within an action-selective network, comprising frontal, parietal, lateral occipital and ventrotemporal regions. This functional organization, that we named action topography, subserves a higher-level and more abstract representation of finalized actions and has the capacity to provide unique representations for multiple categories of actions. Hum Brain Mapp 36:3832–3844, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc."^^ . "2015" . "36" . "10" . . "Wiley"^^ . . . "Human Brain Mapping"^^ . . . "10659471" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Giacomo"^^ . "Handjaras"^^ . "Giacomo Handjaras"^^ . . "Giulio"^^ . "Bernardi"^^ . "Giulio Bernardi"^^ . . "Emiliano"^^ . "Ricciardi"^^ . "Emiliano Ricciardi"^^ . . "Pietro"^^ . "Pietrini"^^ . "Pietro Pietrini"^^ . . "Francesca"^^ . "Benuzzi"^^ . "Francesca Benuzzi"^^ . . "Paolo"^^ . "Nichelli"^^ . "Paolo Nichelli"^^ . . . . . "HTML Summary of #2863 \n\nA topographical organization for action representation in the human brain\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry"@en . .