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 …

A new perspective on cognition views cortical cell assemblies linking together knowledge
about actions and perceptions not only as the vehicles of integrated action and perception …

In everyday life we are commonly exposed to actions performed by other individuals.
Depending on the context or the circumstances, we may be witnessing different types of …

Neurophysiological and imaging studies have shown that seeing the actions of other
individuals brings about the vicarious activation of motor regions involved in performing the …

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

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 …

What are the neural bases of action understanding? Although this capacity could merely
involve visual analysis of the action, it has been argued that we actually map this visual …

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 …

This Special Issue of Neuropsychologia is a celebration and evaluation of the work of David
Milner, who retired formally from his Chair at the University of Durham at the end of 2008. In …

A growing body of neuroimaging and neurophysiology studies has demonstrated the motor
system's involvement in the observation of actions [1–5], but the functional significance of …