Marc Jeannerod
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1,175
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Marc Jeannerod was a pioneering neuroscientist whose work fundamentally reshaped our understanding of motor cognition and the neural basis of action. His research bridged psychology and physiology, focusing on how the brain organizes, represents, and simulates goal-directed movements. Jeannerod’s seminal 1988 monograph, *The Neural and Behavioural Organisation of Goal-Directed Movements* (over 1,175 citations), remains a cornerstone text, synthesizing experimental data from human and animal studies with illustrative clinical cases to reveal the hierarchical structure of motor control. He is perhaps best known for introducing the concept of “motor imagery” and the idea that imagining an action shares neural substrates with executing it, a theory that profoundly influenced cognitive neuroscience and neurorehabilitation. His work on the “simulation theory” of action representation, along with studies on mirror neurons and the perception of biological motion, established him as a founder of the field of motor cognition. With an h-index exceeding 70 and thousands of citations across his career, Jeannerod’s legacy endures in how we understand the mind’s capacity to plan, simulate, and execute movement.
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- 1The neural and behavioural organization of goal-directed movements1,175 citations · 1988