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Decety, J., Michalska, K.J., Akitsuki, Y., & Lahey, B.B. (submitted). Atypical empathic responses in adolescents with aggressive conduct disorder: a functional MRI investigation.

Cacioppo, J.T., & Decety, J. (submitted). What are the brain mechanisms on which psychological processes are based?

Decety, J., & Estabrook, S. (submitted). Social context influences empathy for pain.

Akitsuki, Y., & Decety, J. (submitted). Social context affects empathy for pain: an event-related fMRI investigation.

Lacour, M., Müller, J., Saum, B., Scheidt, C., Bauer, J. & Decety, J. (submitted). Central neural mechanisms of pain processing in fibromyalgia: the impact of the first-hand experience of pain and pain empathy.

Cheng, Y., Chou, K.H., Decety, J., Hung, D., & Lin, C.P. (submitted). Gender differences of the human mirror-neuron system: A voxel-based morphometric investigation.

Lamm, C., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (submitted). How do we empathize with someone who is not like us? Insights from event-related and effective connectivity fMRI measurements.

Decety, J., Porges, E.C., & Akitsuki, Y. (in preparation). Imagining being the agent of actions that carry different moral consequences: an fMRI study.

Decety, J., Echols, S.C., & Correll, J. (in preparation). Empathy and stigma: functional MRI and implicit measurements of attitudes.

Lamm, C., & Decety, J. (in preparation) A quantitative meta-analysis of 12 functional MRI studies of empathy for pain to examine gender differences, dispositional measures and the extent of self-other overlap.

Decety, J., & Nusbaum, H.C. (in preparation). To what extent is social cognition domain-specific?

Decety, J., & Lahey, B.B. (in preparation). Empathy and its dysfunctions in children with antisocial personality and conduct disorders: what can cognitive neuroscience teach us.

Jackson, P.L., Ly, T.N., Jakmakjian, E., Decety, J., & Rainville, P. (in preparation). The interaction between the experience of pain and the perception of pain in others.






Published or in press

Decety, J., & Meyer, M. (2008). From emotion resonance to empathic understanding: A social developmental neuroscience account. Development and Psychopathology, in press.

Decety, J., Michalska, K.J., & Akitsuki, Y. (2008). Who caused the pain? A functional MRI investigation of empathy and intentionality in children. Neuropsychologia, Epub ahead of print.

Cacioppo, J.T., Norris, C.J., Decety, J., Monteleone, G., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2008). Through the eye of the beholder: Individual differences in perceived social isolation predict regional brain activation to social stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Epub ahead of print.

Moriguchi, Y., Ohnishi, T., Decety, J., Hirakata, M., Maeda, M., Matsuda, H., & Komaki, G. (2008). Human mirror-neuron system in population with deficient self-awareness: an fMRI study in alexithymia. Human Brain Mapping, in press.

Lamm, C., Porges, E.C., Cacioppo, J.T., & Decety, J. (2008). Perspective taking is associated with specific facial responses during empathy for pain. Brain Research, Epub ahead of print.

Cheng, Y., Lee, P., Yang, C.Y., Lin, C.P., & Decety, J. (2008). Gender differences in the mu rythm of the human mirror-neuron system. PLoS ONE, 5, e2113.

Lamm, C., & Decety, J. (2008). Is the extrastriate body area (EBA) sensitive to the perception of pain in others? an fMRI investigation. Cerebral Cortex, Epub ahead of print.

Cheng, Y., Yang, C.Y., Lin, C.P., Lee, P.R., & Decety, J. (2008). The perception of pain in others suppresses somatosensory oscillations: a magnetoencephalography study. NeuroImage, 40, 1833-1840.

Lamm, C., Nusbaum, H.C., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2007). What are you feeling? Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess the modulation of sensory and affective responses during empathy for pain. PLoS ONE, 12, e1292.

Cheng, Y., Lin, C., Liu, H.L., Hsu, Y., Lim, K., Hung, D., & Decety, J. (2007). Expertise modulates the perception of pain in others. Current Biology, 17, 1708-1713.

Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (2007). The role of the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction: How low-level computational processes contribute to meta-cognition. The Neuroscientist, 13, 580-593.

Decety, J., & Moriguchi, Y. (2007). The empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations: implications for intervention across different clinical conditions. BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 1, 22-65.

Decety, J., & Batson, C.D. (2007). Social neuroscience approaches to interpersonal sensitivity. Social Neuroscience, 2(3-4), 151-157.

Lamm, C., Fischer, M., & Decety, J. (2007). Predicting the actions of others taps into one's own somatosensory representations - An fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2480-2491. 

Cheng, Y., Decety, J., Hsieh, J.C., Hung, D., & Tzeng, O.J. (2007). Gender differences in spinal excitability during observation of bipedal locomotion. NeuroReport, 18, 887-890. 

Lamm, C., Batson, C.D., & Decety, J. (2007). The neural substrate of human empathy: effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 42-58.

Ashton-James, C., van Baaren, R.B., Chartrand, T.L., & Decety, J. (2007). Mimicry and me: The impact of mimicry on self-construal. Social Cognition, 25, 518-535.

Moriguchi, Y., Decety, J., Ohnishi, T., Maeda, M., Matsuda, H., & Komaki, G. (2007). Empathy and judging other’s pain: An fMRI study of alexithymia. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 2223-2234.

Cheng, Y., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2007). Motivation modulates the activity of the human mirror system: an fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1979-1986. 

Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (2006). Human empathy through the lens of social neuroscience. The Scientific World Journal, 6, 1146–1163. 

Jackson, P.L., Rainville, P., & Decety, J. (2006). To what extent do we share the pain of others? Insight from the neural bases of pain empathy. Pain, 125, 5-9.

Sommerville, J. A., & Decety, J. (2006). Weaving the fabric of social interaction: Articulating developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience in the domain of motor cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 179-200.

Brunet, E., & Decety, J. (2006). Social brain dysfunctions in schizophrenia: A review
of neuroimaging studies. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 148, 75-92. 

Cheng, Y., Tzeng, O.J., Decety, J., & Hsieh, J.C. (2006). Gender differences in the human mirror system: a magnetoencephalography study. NeuroReport, 17, 1115-1119.

Decety, J. (2006). Human empathy. Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology, 22, 11-33. 

Decety, J., & Grezes, J. (2006). The power of simulation: Imagining one's own and other's behavior. Brain Research, 1079, 4-14.  

Decety, J., & Jackson, P.L. (2006). A social neuroscience perspective of empathy. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 54-58. 

Jackson, P.L., Brunet, E., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2006). Empathy examined through the neural mechanisms involved in imagining how I feel versus how you feel pain: An event-related fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 44, 752-61.  

Decety, J., & Keenan, J.P. (2006). Social neuroscience: A new journal. Social Neuroscience, 1, 1-4.  

Jackson, P.L., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2006). Neural circuits involved in imitation and perspective-taking. NeuroImage, 31, 429-439.

Jackson, P.L., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2005). How do we perceive the pain of others: A window into the neural processes involved in empathy. NeuroImage, 24, 771-779. 

Cheng, Y., Tzeng, O.J., Hung, D., Decety, J., & Hsieh, J.C. (2005). Modulation of spinal excitability during observation of bipedal locomotion in human. NeuroReport, 16, 1711-1714.

Decety, J. (2005). Une anatomie de l’empathie. Revue de Psychiatrie, Sciences Humaines et Neurosciences, 3, 16-24. 

Chaminade, T., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2005). An fMRI study of imitation: Action representation and body schema. Neuropsychologia, 43, 115-127. 

Decety, J., Jackson, P.L., Sommerville, J.A., Chaminade, T., & Meltzoff, A.N. (2004). The neural bases of cooperation and competition: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 23, 744-751. 

Decety, J., & Jackson, P.L. (2004). The functional architecture of human empathy. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 3, 71-100. 

Decety, J. (2004). A social neuroscience view of human empathy. Impuls Tidsskrift for Psykologi, 3, 78-86. 

Farrer, C., Franck, N., Frith, C.D., Decety, J., Damato, T., & Jeannerod, M. (2004). Neural correlates of action attribution in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 131, 31-44. 

Keri, S., Decety, J., Roland, P.E., & Gulyas, B. (2004). Feature uncertainty activates anterior cingulate cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 21, 26-33. 

Jackson, P.L., & Decety, J. (2004). Motor cognition: A new paradigm to investigate social interactions. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14, 1-5. 

Ruby, P., & Decety, J. (2004). How would you feel versus how do you think she would feel? A neuroimaging study of perspective taking with social emotions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 988-999. 

Gulyas, B., Keri, S., O'Sullivan, B.T., Decety, J., Roland, P.E., & Savic, I. (2004). The putative pheromone androstadienone activates cortical fields in the human brain related to social cognition. Neurochemistry, 44, 39-44. 

Decety, J. (2004). Empathie et mentalisation à la lumière des neurosciences sociales. Neuropsychiatrie: Tendances et Débats, 23, 25-35. 

Decety, J., & Sommerville, J.A. (2003). Shared representations between self and others: A social cognitive neuroscience view. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 527-533. 

Decety, J., & Chaminade, T. (2003). When the self represents the other: A new cognitive neuroscience view on psychological identification. Consciousness and Cognition, 12, 577-596. 

Blakemore, S-J., Sarfati, Y., Bazin, N., & Decety, J. (2003). The detection of intentional contingencies in simple animations in psychotic patients with delusions of persecution. Psychological Medicine, 33, 1433-1441. 

Ruby, P., & Decety, J. (2003). What you believe versus what you think they believe? A neuroimaging study of conceptual perspective taking. European Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 2475-2480. 

Brunet, E., Sarfati, Y., Hardy-Baylé, M.C., & Decety, J. (2003). A PET study of the attribution of intentions to others in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1574-1582. 

Blakemore, S.-J., Boyer, P., Meltzoff, A.N., Segebarth, C., & Decety, J. (2003). The detection of contingency and animacy in the human brain: An fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 13, 837-844. 

Farrer, C., Franck, N., Frith, C.D., Decety, J., & Jeannerod, M. (2003). Modulating the experience of agency: A PET study. NeuroImage, 18, 324-333. 

Decety, J, & Chaminade, T. (2003). Neural correlates of feeling sympathy. Neuropsychologia, 41, 127-138. 

Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2003). What imitation tells us about social cognition: A rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, 358, 491-500. 

Wicker, B., Perrett, D.I., Baron-Cohen, S., & Decety J. (2003). Being the target of another's emotion: a PET study. Neuropsychologia, 41, 127-138. 

Decety, J. (2003). L’empathie ou l’émotion partagée. Pour la Science (French edition of Scientific American), 309, 46-51. 

Decety, J., & Jackson, P.L. (2003). Le corps met en scène l’esprit. La Recherche, 366, 79-87. 

Chaminade, T., & Decety, J. (2002). Neuroimaging evidence in favor of a common framework for perception and action (A commentary to Hommel et al.'s "Theory of Event Coding"), Behavioral and Brain Science, 24, 879-882. 

Chaminade, T., & Decety J. (2002). Leader or follower? Involvement of the inferior parietal lobule in agency. NeuroReport, 15, 1975-1978. 

Decety, J., Chaminade, T., Grèzes J., & Meltzoff, A.N. (2002). A PET exploration of the neural mechanisms involved in reciprocal imitation. NeuroImage, 15, 265-272. 

Chaminade, T., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2002). Does the end justify the means? A PET exploration of imitation. NeuroImage, 15, 318-328. 

Decety, J. (2002). Naturaliser l’empathie [Empathy naturalized]. L’Encéphale, 28, 9-20. 

Ruby, P., Sirigu, A., & Decety, J. (2002). Distinct areas in parietal cortex involved in long-term and short-term action planning. A PET investigation. Cortex, 38, 321-339. 

Grèzes, J., & Decety, J. (2001). Functional anatomy of execution, mental simulation, observation and verb generation of actions: A meta-analysis. Human Brain Mapping, 12, 1-19. 

Grèzes, J., Fonlupt, P., Bertenthal, B., Delon-Martin, C., Segebarth, C., & Decety, J. (2001). Does perception of biological motion rely on specific brain regions? NeuroImage, 13, 775-785. 

Ruby, P., & Decety, J. (2001). Effect of the subjective perspective taking during simulation of action: a PET investigation of agency. Nature Neuroscience, 4, 546-550. 

Blakemore, S., & Decety, J. (2001). From the perception of action to the understanding of intention. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2, 561-567. 

Perani, D., Fazio, F., Borghese NA, Tettamanti, M., Ferrari, S., Decety, J., & Gilardi, M.C. (2001). Different brain correlates for watching real and virtual hand actions. NeuroImage, 14, 749-758. 

Grèzes, J., & Decety, J. (2001). Does visual perception of objects afford action? Evidence from a neuroimaging study. Neuropsychologia, 40, 212-222. 

Chaminade, T., Meary, D., Orliaguet, J.P., & Decety, J. (2001). Is visual anticipation a motor simulation? A PET study. NeuroReport, 12, 3669-3674. 

Blakemore S., Fonlupt, P., Darmon, C., Pachot, M., Boyer, P., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2001). How the brain perceives causality: An event-related fMRI study. NeuroReport, 12, 3741-3746. 

Brunet, E., Sarfati, Y., Hardy-Bayle, M.C., & Decety, J. (2000). A PET investigation of attribution of intentions to others with a non-verbal task. NeuroImage, 11, 157-166. 

Stevens, J.A., Fonlupt, P., Shiffrar, M.A., & Decety, J. (2000). New aspects of motion perception: selective neural encoding of apparent human movements. NeuroReport, 11, 109-115. 

Thobois, S., Dominey, P., Decety, J., Pollak, P., & Broussolle, E. (2000). Overactivation of primary motor cortex is asymmetric in hemiparkinsonian patients. NeuroReport, 11, 785-789. 

Decety J. (2000). Les racines biologiques de la mentalisation. Psychiatrie, 7, 246-251. 

Grèzes, J., Fonlupt, P., & Decety, J. (2000). L’équivalence fonctionnelle: mythe cognitif ou réalité neurologique? Psychologie Française, 45, 319-332. 

Decety, J. (2000). Prédire les pensées d'autrui: de la psychologie évolutionniste aux neurosciences cognitives. L'Encéphale, 26 SP3, 12-21. 

Thobois, S., Dominey, P.F., Decety, J., Pollak, P., & Broussolle, E. (2000). Motor imagery in normal subjects and in asymmetrical Parkinson’s disease: A PET study. Neurology, 55, 996-1002. 

Stoléru, S., Grégoire MC, Decety, J., Gérard, D., Lafarge, E., Cinotti, L., Lavenne, F., Le Bars, D., Vernet-Maury, E., Collet, C., Mazoyer, B., Magnin, F., & Comar, D. (1999). Functional neuroanatomy of visually-evoked sexual arousal in human males. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1, 1-21. 

Decety, J. (1999). Se représenter agir: de l’équivalence fonctionnelle entre imaginer une action, la réaliser ou l’observer. Evolutions Psychomotrices, 11, 3-18. 

Delon-Martin, C., Roth, M., Morand, S., Massarelli, R., Belle, V., Decety, J., Décorps, M., & Segebarth, C. (1999). MRI measurements of the functional blood flow changes in cortical veins draining the motor cortex. NMR in Biomedicine, 11, 3-18. 

Decety, J., & Grèzes J. (1999). Neural mechanisms subserving the perception of human actions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 172-178. 

Decety, J. (1999). Voir le cerveau penser: intérêt et limites des techniques de neuroimagerie. Annales Médico-Psychologiques, 157, 673-686. 

Faillenot, I., Decety, J., & Jeannerod, M. (1999). Human brain activity related to the perception of object spatial features. NeuroImage, 10, 114-124. 

Grèzes, J., Costes, N., & Decety, J. (1999). The effect of learning on the neural networks engaged by the perception of meaningless actions. Brain, 122, 1875-1888. 

Decety, J. (1998). Is PET solely a post-hoc tool to validate psychological models of memory? Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, Série III, 321, 207-208. 

Bonnet, M., Vidal, F., & Decety, J. (1998). Laplacian ERPs for preparation to imagine a learned motor sequence. Current Psychology of Cognition, 17, 685-199. 

Grèzes, J., Costes, N., & Decety, J. (1998). down effect of the strategy to imitate on the brain areas engaged in perception of biological motion: a PET investigation. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 15, 553-582. 

Grèzes, J., Decety, J. (1998). L’approche neurobiologique de la perception de mouvements biologiques est-elle pertinente à la compréhension de l’apraxie? Revue de Neuropsychologie, 8, 241-270. 

Wicker, B., Michel, F., Henaff MA, & Decety, J. (1998). Brain regions associated with mutual gaze: a PET study. NeuroImage, 8, 221-227. 

Decety, J., & Grèzes, J. (1998). A neurobiological approach to imitation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 688-690. 

Faillenot, I., Toni, I., Decety, J., Jeannerod, M., & Grégoire, M.C. (1997). Visual pathways for object-oriented action and object identification: Functional anatomy with PET. Cerebral Cortex, 7, 77-85. 

Decety, J., & Boisson, D. (1997). Anticipation, représentations et schéma corporel à la lumière des neurosciences cognitives. Annales de Réadaptation et de Médecine Physique, 40, 63-73. 

Bonnet, M., Decety, J., Jeannerod, M., & Requin, J. (1997). Mental simulation of an action modulates the excitability of spinal reflex pathways in man. Cognitive Brain Research, 5, 221-228. 

Faillenot, I., Sakata, H. Costes, N., Decety, J., & Jeannerod. (1997). Visual working memory for shape and 3-D orientation: a PET study. NeuroReport, 8, 859-862. 

Decety, J., Grèzes, J., Costes, N., Perani, D., Jeannerod, M., Procyk, E., Grassi, F., & Fazio, F. (1997). Brain activity during observation of actions. Influence of action content and subject’s strategy. Brain, 120, 1763-1777. 

Decety, J., & Jeannerod, M. (1996). Mentally simulated movements in virtual reality: Does Fitts law hold in motor imagery? Behavioural Brain Research, 72, 127-134. 

Decety, J. (1996). Do executed and imagined movements share the same central structures? Cognitive Brain Research, 3, 87-93. 

Decety, J. (1996). Neural representations for action. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 7, 285-297. 

Roth, M., Decety, J., Raybaudi, M., Massarelli, R., Delon-Martin, C., Segebarth, C., Decorps, M., & Jeannerod, M. (1996). Possible involvement of primary motor cortex in mentally simulated movement: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. NeuroReport, 7, 1280-1284. 

Decety, J. (1996). The neurophysiological basis of motor imagery. Behavioural Brain Research, 77, 45-52. 

Toni, I., Gentilucci, M., Jeannerod, M., & Decety, J. (1996). Differential influence of the visual framework on end point accuracy and trajectory specification of arm movement. Experimental Brain Research, 111, 447-454. 

Decety, J. (1996). Les techniques de neuroimagerie appliquées à l’étude de la schizophrénie: nécessaires mais pas suffisantes! L’Encéphale, 3, 25-26. 

Wuyam, B., Moosavi, S.H., Decety, J., Adams, L., Lansing, R.W., & Guz, A. (1995). Imagination of dynamic exercise produces ventilatory responses which are more apparent in competitive sportsmen. Journal of Physiology, London, 482, 713-724. 

Decety, J. (1995). Explorations de la motricité volontaire chez l’homme par tomographie d’émission de positons. Annales de Réadaptation et de Médecine Physique, 38, 395-400. 

Decety, J. (1995). Can motor imagery be used as a form of therapy? The Journal of the NIH Research, 7, 47-49. 

Belle, V., Delon, C., Massarelli, R., Decety, J., Le Bas, J.F., Decorps, M., Benabid, A.L., & Segebarth C. (1995). Intracranial gradient-echo and spin echo functional MR angiography (fMRI) in humans. Radiology, 195, 739-746.  

Dominey, P., Decety, J., Broussolle, E., Chazot, G., & Jeannerod, M. (1995). Motor imagery of a lateralized sequential task is asymmetrically slowed in hemi-Parkinson's patients. Neuropsychologia, 33, 727-741.  

Decety, J., & Jeannerod, M. (1995). L’imagerie mentale et son substrat neurologique. Revue Neurologique, 151, 474-479. 

Segebarth, C., Delon-Martin, C., Belle, V., Massarelli, R., Decety, J., Le Bas, J.F., & Decorps, M. (1995). Imagerie fonctionnelle des activations cérébrales par résonance nucléaire. In: Instrumentation physique en biologie et en médecine. Actes de colloques de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris, 173-180. 

Decety, J. (1995). L’activation en tomographie par émission de positons : comment améliorer le rapport signal sur bruit? Circulation et Métabolisme du Cerveau, 12, 153-161. 

Decety, J. (1995). Imagerie motrice et contrôle moteur: apports récents des neurosciences cognitives. Questions de Logopédie, 31, 43-65. 

Faillenot, I. Toni, I., Decety, J., Jeannerod, M., Lavenne, F., Cinotti, L., & Froment, J.C. (1995). Structures cérébrales impliquées dans la reconnaissance et dans la préhension d’objets: Anatomie fonctionnelle en TEP. Circulation et Métabolisme du Cerveau, 12, 247-256. 

Jeannerod, M., & Decety, J. (1995). Mental motor imagery: a window into the representational stages of action. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 5, 727-732. 

Jeannerod, M., Decety, J., & Michel, F. (1994). Impairment of grasping movements following a bilateral posterior parietal lesion. Neuropsychologia, 32, 369-380. 

Segebarth, C., Belle, V., Delon, C., Massarelli, R., Decety, J., Le Bas, J.F., Decorps, M., & Benabid, A.L. (1994). Functional MRI of human brain: Predominance of signals from extracerebral veins. NeuroReport, 5, 813-816. 

Decety, J., Perani, D., Jeannerod, M., Bettinardi, V., Tadary, B., Mazziotta, J.C., Woods, R., & Fazio, F. (1994). Mapping motor representations with positron emission tomography. Nature, 371, 600-602. 

Gentilucci, M., Jeannerod, M., Tadary, B., & Decety, J. (1994). Dissociating extrinsic and intrinsic motor coordinates during pointing movements. Experimental Brain Research, 102, 359-366. 

Belle, V., Delon, C., Massarelli, R., Decety, J., Le Bas, J.F., Decorps, M., Benabid, A.L., & Segebarth, C. (1994). Intracranial functional MR angiography in humans. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 2, 343-345. 

Decety, J., Jeannerod, M., Durozard, D., & Baverel, G. (1993). Central activation of autonomic effectors during mental simulation of motor actions in man. Journal of Physiology, London, 461, 549-563. 

Ryding, E., Decety, J., Sjöholm, H., Stenberg, G., & Ingvar, D.H. (1993). Motor imagery activates the cerebellum regionally: a SPECT rCBF study with 99mTc-HMPAO. Cognitive Brain Research, 2, 94-99. 

Decety, J. (1993). Should motor imagery be used in physiotherapy? Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 9, 193-203. 

Decety, J., Kawashima, R., Gulyás, B., & Roland, P.E. (1992). Preparation for reaching: A PET study of the participating structures in the human brain. NeuroReport, 3, 761-764. 

Decety, J. (1992). Neurobiologie des représentations mentales motrices. Psychologie Médicale, 24, 261-265. 

Decety, J., & Lindgren, M. (1991). Sensation of effort and duration of mentally executed actions. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 32, 97-104. 

Decety, J., Jeannerod, M., Germain, M., & Pastène J. (1991). Vegetative response during imagined movement is proportional to mental effort. Behavioural Brain Research, 42, 1-5. 

Decety, J. (1991). Motor information may be important for updating the cognitive processes involved in mental imagery of movement. European Bulletin of Cognitive Psychology, 4, 415-426. 

Decety, J., & Ingvar, D.H. (1990). Brain structures participating in mental simulation of motor behavior: A neuropsychological interpretation. Acta Psychologica, 73, 13-34. 

Decety, J., & Boisson, D. (1990). Brain and spinal cord injuries effects on motor imagery. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 240, 39-43. 

Decety, J., Sjöholm, H., Ryding, E., Stenberg, G., & Ingvar, D.H. (1990). The cerebellum participates in cognitive activity: Tomographic measurements of regional cerebral blood flow. Brain Research, 535, 313-317. 

Decety, J., & Michel, F. (1989). Comparative analysis of actual and mental movement times in two graphic tasks. Brain and Cognition, 11, 87-97. 

Decety, J., Jeannerod, M., & Prablanc, C. (1989). The timing of mentally represented actions. Behavioural Brain Research, 34, 35-42. 

Decety, J., & Mick, G. (1988). Représentation mentale du mouvement: Approche neuro-cognitive et intérêt pratique. Médecine du Sport, 25, 232-241. 

Decety, J., Philippon, B., & Ingvar, D.H. (1988). rCBF landscapes during motor performance and motor ideation of a graphic gesture. European Archives of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences, 238, 33-38.