Context facilitates the recognition of forthcoming actions by pointing to which intention is
likely to drive them. This intention is thought to be estimated in a ventral pathway linking …

The processing of congruent stimuli, such as an object or action in its typical location, is
usually associated with reduced neural activity, probably due to facilitated recognition …

Action recognition involves not only the readout of body movements and involved objects
but also the integration of contextual information, eg the environment in which an action …

Watching others grasping and using objects activates an action observation network (AON),
including inferior frontal (IFC), anterior intraparietal (AIP), and somatosensory cortices (S1) …

Understanding object-directed actions performed by others is central to everyday life. This
ability is thought to rely on the interaction between the dorsal action observation network …

Observation of snapshots depicting ongoing motor acts increases corticospinal motor
excitability. Such motor facilitation indexes the anticipatory simulation of observed (implied) …

Recent accounts of understanding goal-directed action underline the importance of a
hierarchical predictive architecture. However, the neural implementation of such an …

Neuroimaging studies on action observation suggest that context plays a key role in coding
high-level components of motor behavior, including the short-term and the end-goal of an …

While the brain regions involved in action observation are relatively well documented in
humans and primates, how these regions communicate to help understand and predict …

Context plays a key role in coding high-level components of others' behavior, including the
goal and the intention of an observed action. However, little is known about its possible role …