Already in uterus the hand moves with the typical accelerated-decelerated kinematics of
goal-directed actions and, from the twenty-second week of pregnancy, the unborn shows the …

In human newborns, spontaneous visual preference for biological motion is reported to
occur at birth, but the factors underpinning this preference are still in debate. Using a …

Background Biological motions, that is, the movements of humans and other vertebrates, are
characterized by dynamic regularities that reflect the structure and the control schemes of …

The central role of sensory-motor representations in cognitive functions is almost universally
accepted. However, determining the link between motor execution and its sensory …

In a world full of objects, predicting which object a person is going to grasp is not easy for an
onlooker. Among other cues, the characteristics of a reaching movement might be …

The present study addresses the hypothesis that detection of biological motion is an intrinsic
capacity of the visual system guided by a non‐species‐specific predisposition for the pattern …

Because action plans must anticipate the states of the world which will be obtained when the
actions take place, effective actions depend on predictions. The present experiments begin …

From a very young age, infants perceive others' actions as goal directed. Yet, the processes
underlying this competence are still debated. In this study, we investigated whether (a) 4 …

In human adults two functionally and neuro‐anatomically separate systems exist for the use
of visual information in perception and the use of visual information to control movements …

A popular idea in cognitive neuroscience is that to predict others' actions, observers need to
map those actions onto their own motor repertoire. If this is true, infants with a relatively …