The ventral visual stream is conceived as a pathway for object recognition. However, we
also recognize the actions an object can be involved in. Here, we show that action …

Imagine Genghis Khan, Aretha Franklin, and the Cleveland Cavaliers performing an opera
on Maui. This silly sentence makes a serious point: As humans, we can flexibly generate …

Ten years ago, Perspectives in Psychological Science published the Mirror Neuron Forum,
in which authors debated the role of mirror neurons in action understanding, speech …

Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …

Actions can be planned and recognized at different hierarchical levels, ranging from very
specific (eg, to swim backstroke) to very broad (eg, locomotion). Understanding the …

Observing others' actions recruits frontoparietal and posterior temporal brain regions–also
called the action observation network. It is typically assumed that these regions support …

Most recent research highlights how a specific form of causal understanding, namely
technical reasoning, may support the increasing complexity of tools and techniques …

The term 'action understanding'has been defined in several ways since it was first proposed
to describe the psychological process subserved by mirror neurons. Here we outline and …

Traditional brain–machine interfaces decode cortical motor commands to control external
devices. These commands are the product of higher-level cognitive processes, occurring …

High-level sensory and motor cortical areas are activated when processing the meaning of
language, but it is unknown whether, and how, words share a neural substrate with …