Interacting with others in the environment requires that we perceive and recognize their
movements and actions. Neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies have indicated that …

Our ability to generate actions and to recognize actions performed by others is the bedrock
of our social life. Behavioral evidence suggests that the processes underlying perception …

People interact with entities in the environment in distinct and categorizable ways (eg,
kicking is making contact with foot). We can recognize these action categories across …

The ability to interpret and predict other people's actions is highly evolved in humans and is
believed to play a central role in their cognitive behavior. However, there is no direct …

Humans, being highly social creatures, rely heavily on the ability to perceive what others are
doing and to infer from gestures and expressions what others may be intending to do. These …

Accumulating evidence has suggested the existence of a human action recognition system
involving inferior frontal, parietal, and superior temporal regions that may participate in both …

Recent neuroimaging evidence in macaques has shown that the neural system underlying
the observation of hand actions performed by others (ie,“action observation system”) is …

The ability to recognize actions is important for cognitive development and social cognition.
Areas in the lateral occipitotemporal cortex show increased activity when subjects view …

Specific spatial environments are often indicative of where certain actions may take place: In
kitchens we prepare food, and in bathrooms we engage in personal hygiene, but not vice …

It has been proposed that the ability to make sense of other agents' behavior relies on the
activation of internal mechanisms that map action perception onto action execution. In this …